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G-Force 060
GT-5000 scan
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Web design
Epson 5500
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XL 1.76MB
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£69.95 \
INT. DRIVES
SYQUEST EZ
■*im;i
£239
GENIUS
1
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EPSON SCAN
■ 'liWill.
£479
POWERSCAN
SUPER XL DRIVE
v.iper XI Driut- ! tore
3,5MB an a
SUPER XL DRIVE
£129.95
1.76 XL DRIVE
The XL Drive allows you to uore a
1.7SMB on a high density disk.
1.76 XL DRIVE EXTERNAL £69.95
1.76 XI DRIVE INTERNAL £75
1,76 XL DRIVE A4000 £75
PC8BOS EXT. POWER. DfWE . £49.95
PCSBOE EXT.POWER DRIVE . .£39.95
INTER NAL DRIVES
PCB81 A 5-00 .
PC882 A2000
PC883 AGOti/1200
HARD DRIVES
3.5 IDE ,
3 5 SCSI
12QMB 1-5 IDE
340MB 2. 5 IDE
510MB 2.5 IDE
850MB 2 5 IDE
T GIGABYTE 2.5 IDE
£30.95
135.95
£35.95
£POA
£POA
£8995
£1S9.95
£289.95
£439.95
£CALL
DISK EXPANDER (WITH HD PURCKA5t)£15
RAPID FIRE SCSI
Rapid Fire SCSI-1! controller card.
Install jp to 8MB on board For the
A20D0, A3 000 and A4QC0
DKB RAPID FIRE SCSI- 1 1 ...£139.95
M-TEC HD
External IDE hard disk for the A50D
CQfnes complete with an internal RDM
switcher, and upgradable to 4MB RAM
M-TEC ATSOU flARE .£99
PLEASE CALL FOR HD SIZES
MEMORY KtqUIRES JC-Plff 51 M.Mi
ZIP DRIVE
ZIP DRIVE 100MB SCSI £199.95
ZIP DRIVE Inc. Squirrel , . . .£249,95
100MB DISKETTE £19.95
I\f MlVt REQ-UMf S 5QUWRE1 SOI INTERFACE
SYQUEST EZ135
The Syquest EI13S drive is an. ideal
parage device. The EZ Drive stores
135MB on a single 3,5" cartridge
and has a seek time of 13.5ms.
Comes complete with one 135MB
cartridge- (A SCSI interface is re-quired)
SYQUEST EZ135MB £239-95
135MB CARTRIDGE £19.95
SCANDOUBLER
ScanDoubfer II is a full 24-bit ACTA flicker
fixer which automatically de -interlaces all
AGA screen modes and scan doubles non-
inter laced PAL/NISC modes to allow VGA
monitors to display them
SCAN DOUBLER II £399
VIDEO BACKUP 3
Backup to 520MB onto a Jhr VHS tape.
. new backup modes for
Amlg .. 68020 or higher CF
VIDEO BACKUP 5CART . 149.95
VIDEO BACKUP PHONO . . . .£45.95
UPGRADE TO VERSION 3 £20
FLOPPY EXPANDER
Save 1.5MB on a standard floppy drive
and 3MB when used »n conjunction
with the XL Drive 176
FLOPPY EXPANDER
£10
PHASE 5
CYBER VISION &4 2MB £299.95
BLIZZARD 1260 - A1200 060 £599.95
Si'JiCCAi. 0, : i : :.i.i
BLIZ2ARD 123D - A1 200 030 £229.95
INCLUDING SOMHl FPU
SX-32
SX-32 Is an internal add-on card for your
CD 32 and features: VGA port, RGB port,
parallel port, serial port, external disk
drive port (t 76MB), dock, controller for
2.5* hard disk, and a SIMM socket (up to
BMB). Turin your CD-32 into a A1ZQQ.
SX-32 MODULE £199.95
CHIPS & SPARES
256 jt 32 SIMM 72-PIN (IMS) , £40
512 X 32 SIMM 72-PIN (2MB) - £75
1 X BSIMM 32-PIN {1MB) .. . £POA
4 X S SIMM 12 PIN {4MB! .. £POA
1 X 4 STATIC COLUMN A3000 ... .£25
1 X4 DIP £25
256 X 4 DIP .,..., £5
t X 1 DIP £5
CIA , .£12
GARY £19
PAULA £19
DEN15E £19
SUPER DENISE £25
KEYBOARD IC £12
FAT AGNUS 1MB , £19
FAT AGNUS 2 MB". £29
PRINTER CABLE , £6
Ft5232 CABLE £€
SCSI EXTERNAL £15
WORKBENCH 3,1 A50Q/20QQ ,£89,95
WORKBENCH 3.1 A3oqDJ«0rj ...£95
ROM SHARE DEVICE £19
2.04 ROM CHIP £25
FOR ANY SPARES REQUIRED PLEASE CALL
PRINTERS/MONITORS
MICROVITEC 143B 14' £289
EPSON STYLUS IMC. PAPER . . £489
EPSON STYLU5 COLOUR lis .£249.95
EPSON STYLUS COLOUR II .£335.95
EPSON STYLUS 820 £219,95
EHO*l STVLuS/MO XL INCLUDE STUCIO I! SOFTWARE
Official GVP RAM SIMMs.
4MB GVP RAM
16MB GVP RAM
68060
£159.95
£459.95
A 63060 accelerator board for the A2WXI
running at 50MHz and allowing
128MB of user installable memory i
SCSI-1 1 hard disk control ler.
A2000 68040 (0MB RAM) £$29,95 I
A2000 6B060 <QMB RAM) £699.95 ,
A40Q0 GB0G0 sGMH RAM) . £749-95
4MB STANDARD ADD £125.95
4MB GVP ADD .£159.95
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ACEEX V32 B!S 14.4 ncrf wapmiovls .£80
X-LINK nun v« n.t at *ptnovEd £1 99-95
ALL MOOEMSINCLUDF SOFTWARE AHDCASIES
VGA
HI-SOFT
SQUIRREL SCSI INTERFACE
AURA
MEGALOSOUND
Intu
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£79.95
£29.95
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squirrel *cs( interface
Included where you
see this Lego
SURF SOU RR L
Surf Squirrel offers an even higher SCSI
performance, auto-booting, and ultra-fast
serial port. Surf Squirrel is the ideal
expansion peripheral for your Amiga
12O0. Please call for more information
SUflf SQUIRREL
£9995
ALP
High
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STUDIO II SOFTWARE £49.95 SQUIRREL MPEG
UIRREL MPEG
Squirrel MPEG allows you to play VideoCDj
and CDI CD-ROM's, Squirrel MPEG brings A SC
high quality digitally mastered images and a r 'd
16-bit stereo sound to you and yaur torn
Amiga, foT
£199.95 GUI
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S12K RAM WITH CLOCK
512K RAM WITHOUT CLOCK .
A600 1MBRAM . ....
IBRi
MEGACHIP RAM
■ pRAM to
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using its own 2MB RAM and also now
in>. luiics j 2MB Fat Agnus. No soldiering it
required
68040/060
MEGACHIP RAM
£159,95
A500 68 020 EC
A &8Q2Q EC processor accelerator card tor
the A50Q and A50Q+, with an option to fit
i bBBBl Of 68BB2 to-pfocessar (PLCC or
PGA), Thli card can fit uplo -5MB FAST
RAM and is fully auto-configuring.
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH £W HARD DRIVE
AS 00 66020 EC 0MB RAM
£99.95
A500GBQ20 EC 4MB RAM
£18995
GRAPHIC/VIDEO
PICASSO il 2MB RAW
£249.95
INCLUDING tV PAIHf JNH.
PICASSO II 5MB RAM . . .
£399,95
INCLUDING TV PAINT 3
VIDEO DAC . .
£25
VGA ADAPTOR
VGA ADAPTOR
£15
GLI DEPOINT
Intuitive cursor control at your finger tips
.Tap' for an instant selection. Connects to
the Serial port. [This is not a graphic tablet)
ALPS GUDEPOINT
£59.95
GENIUS TABLET
High resolution pen and cursor controlled
graphic tablet including cables and soft-
ware, Power Template software includes
templates for DPaint V, DPaint IV AGA,
PPaint 6.4. What's. morE you can create
your own templates using this software
(far any 2.0/3.1 compliant software) When
using the cursor it will emulate a 3
buttoned mrjuw
GENIUS TABLET 12 X 12
£195.95
INCL PEN, L UPtSO* .4 ND POVl E H IAHMEMP i'V.
6VP GURU-ROM V6
A SCSI driver for all Series II host adaptors,
and accelerator cards for all Amiga
computers. Please call for further information
For GVP Only.
POWER CD-ROM
Trie Power CD-ROM for the Amiga
£0071200 plugs directly into the
PCMCIA port and provides a direct
SCSI-1 and SCSI-II interface, allowing
up to six additional devices to he
connected. What' 1 ; more the Power
CD-ROM features a 'Hot-plug' which
allows you to connect and disconnect
the CD-ROM and any other additional
device* even when the Amiga is
switched on.
The CD-ROM drive comes with a SCSI
Interface, PSU, manual, audio lead,
mams lead and software which
includes Audio CD, CD32 Emulator,
MPEG Film Decoder and Photo CD,
AMIGA 600/1200
x2 SPEED CD-ROM iN<,i0UIIIIF.L -
X4 SPEED CD-ROM iNC.SQUiRHEl
AMIGA 4000
DUAL SPEED CD-ROM EXT. , ,
QUAD SPEED CD-ROM EXT
AMIGA 4000 SCSl-lNTERf ACE
SCSI CABLE
£169
£219
£139
£199
£129
£10
GURU-ROM V6
£49,95
POWER SCANNER
Scan in 24-bit at upto 200DPI (all Amiga;
not just AGA}*. Scan In 256 grayscales at
up to 400.DP! (all Amirjas), Thfu'port for
printer connection. Fully supportl AGA
chipset,. Display K A MB/24 -b ;1 mages on a
npn-AtjA Amiga {via image conversion),
full editing facilities included, Works with
2,04 ROM or above, min 1MB (recommend
2MB)
POWER SCAN 4 BW ,. . . £89.95
POWER SCAN 4 COLOUR .. £169.95
OCR (BOUGHT WITH SCAHNER) £20
OCR SOFTWARE . . . . £49.95
POWFR SCAN 4 S/W ONLY £20
PC INTERFACE + COL SW ...£49.95
PC INTERFACE + 6/W 5/W £39.95
FLATBED SCANNERS
24-bft A4 flatbed scanners, complete with
software, cables and manual.*
EPSON QT-5000 £479,95
atari inc r*o**nscANi software
EPSON GT-85QO 1579.95
M-IIT, INC F-OW*RKAf» SOFTWARE
EPSON GT-9000 £729,95
J4 Bit, INC MAGI FX HtV. 1J 10H'*i»l
ADPRO SOFTWARE £149.95
IMAGE FX 2.0 SAW £149.95
SCANNER SOFTWARE
FLATBED POWERSCANNER S/W £59.95
WOPIKl WltH ALL fPSOh FLATBED SCANNERS
FALCON 68040RC 25MHZ
FALCON 68C60RC 50MHZ
4MB SIMM .
8MB SIMM .
16MB SIMM
FALCON NO CPU
SCSI ADAPTOR £29.95
All Filing's tome cam i.
£399,95
£649.95
£59.95
£129.95
£189.95
£349.95
VIPER 28M HZ
The Viper 2B can have up to 128MB
RAM installed, full Kick start remapping,
optional SCSI-II adaptor, onboard
battery backed Clock, 688SZ co-
processor optional, instruction and data
burst modes.
VIPER ZB MKII BARE £119.95
VIPER 23 MKII 2MB . . £159.95
VIPER 29 MKI1 4MB £179.95
VIPER Z8 MKII 8MB £249.95
VIPER 23 MKII 16MB £309.95
VIPER MKII SCSI ADAPTOR ,£69.95
VIPER 50MHZ
The Viper SO can have up to 128MB
RAM installed, and the same features
as the Viper 28,
VIPER SO BARE
VIPER SO 2MB .
VIPER SO 4MB .
VIPER 50 8MB .
£199,95
£229.95
£259.95
£329.95
VIPER 50 T6MB £389.95
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20MH2 FPU PLCC .
13MHZ FPU PLCC . .
-SO MHZ FPU PLCC - , ,
5QMHZ FPU PGA
VIPER MKT SCSI-ADAPTOR
PC1 2 08
£20.95
£39.95
£60.95
£79.95
£79.95
A 1200 8MB RAM card which uses 1 x
32 SIMMs and is PCMCIA friendly.
PC 12 08 BARE
PC1208 2MB
PC 1208 4MB .
PC1208BM6 .
, £55.95
£9995
£115.95
£185.95
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anient
System news 74
Everthing you want to know about the
future of the Amiga games market is here.
Check it out now...
SWOS - EURO 96 EDITION 76
With the Euro 36
competition taking
place a$ we write, it
seems everyone in
the industry is trying
to get in Qn the act
Time Warber
certainly is
Valhalla 78
That little btokewho talks a lot returns in a
new adventure entitled Fortress of Eve.
Brilliant
OtAOS ENGINE 2 80
After success iike Xenon 2 and Speedball, the
Bitmaps return to grace our Amiga screens
with more quality games
Legends 82
Legends first came about two years ago,
although Krisalis decided not to proceed with
it. But now Guildhall has got its. mits on it
OlEAT MODE 84
Simon the Wizard-lad is back, only this time
you can make sure he'll complete bis quest
with the first part of the complete solution
£
+SYST6WM0
EVIEWS
Epson CT-5000 E3 Instant Drive
Laser guidance __
The CDs keep flooding in, so resident guru Andu
Maddock brings yoj another jam-packed review
EATURES
VISCORP
Dan Winfield reports on proposed new developments
discussed at the Toulouse press conference
Cd-rom drives.
Neil Mo hi tests out several octal-speed
drives, lucky boy that he is
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
Eyetech has released a low<ost, high capacity
hard drive, Neil Mohr puts it to the test
Book reviews
Liz Ogden
tackles her first
Amiga review
with a look at
two books for
the beginner
Epson 5500
Almost turning out to be a tribute to Epson this
month, we look at the new laser printer
G-FORCE 060
The new accelerator card From Power Computing
makes an appearance. Neil Mohr takes a look
Arexx beginners
The second part of Paul Overaa's beginner's guide
looks al variables and the functions they perform
Web page design 01
The second part of this tutorial looks at the
practical side of design, with the tools used
Database.
Paul Overaa continues his expert
C programming series..
HE COVERDISKS
X-DVE 2 DEMO
Awesome animation
and video titling
effects at your disposal
with this exclusive
demo of the latest
version of this digital
effects generator
Top gear
As usual we delve into the depths of A mi net
to bring you:
Championship Manager editor; PhotoAlbum;
TinyMeter; ATAPI Device; ScreenTab; EasyPrint;
Print Manager; EasyLink; FlushMem
□
News
EGULARS
Tina Hackett brings you all the latest news from the
Amiga world, including the Videomaster relaunch
Ac AS
Unde AtAS warts you to sit on he lap. Hell help you win
your problem and send you on your way with a fixed Amiga
Letters
IS Public sector
Those letters keep flooding in to complain
shout and praise the Amiga world
M1GA GUIDE
Dave Cusick takes over
the column and looks at
patches and programs
Paul Overaa presents us
with the second part about
AmigaOOS' protection bits
identifying ARexx port
names is this month's
challenge from Paul Overaa
Dave Cusick looks at a few
programs that Web surfers
can J t do without
Dave's a busy man this
month as he deals with the
subject of newsletter
Oiddy Dave Cusick is a big man in the world of PD
- people send stuff to him from all over the world
_
Phil South gives us part
three of hb tutorial on
planning an Amos project
A beginner's eye look
at the world of MIDI,
courtesy of Paul Overaa
Steve White shows us the
importance of multimedia
design for interfaces
Steve White begins a new
I tutorial on the uses of
Blitz Basic
OVER
STORY
Ground control _M
NASA. Hal Greenlee,
retired NASA engineer,
reports on the Amiga's
long-term involvement in
the American unmanned
space program
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
CLOCK CARTRIDGE
MEMORY EXPANSIONS
Our unique and higHy rated ertemal Clock.
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CompaUUe with ALL Amiga* I
i^ipctoDf rrttjtig, memory espnnsi
an eccelwatO'rFPU,
ARLY DOUBLES THE
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DATAFLYER SCSI+
Now includes CD ROM drivers and instructions.
DISCOLOGY
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40mhz 68882 FPU (ptcc) £69.99
SrJmhz S SSB2 FPU (PQA1 £79.98 _
33mhZ 6S882 FPU (OlCC) £34.9*#*5J
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ASIM CDFS 3.5
upotti package is a must for any CD-TOM user. Includes CD32 hS CPTV emulation, . •■ i:ln .
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85mb £89.99
120mb£l04.99
170mb £119.99
250mb £134.99
340mb £169.99
540mb £214.99
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Qet yourself connected
A new product called NetConnect is being released to provide Amiga user? with
all they need to get connected to the Internet. Priced at around £45, it will be
distributed in England by Active Software and by Cross Computer Systems in
Germany. It is available as either a CD or floppy disk and contains six main pro-
grams which allow even the net novice to get connected quickly. The software
is commercially licensed, so the user does not need to register them,
As Active Software explained, the program does all the work for you, so alt
you need to do is choose your country, choose an ISR select your local POP and
type in your user details,. NetConnett will also contain many Internet programs
as well which include Voyager vl Mail, PowerMail vl FTP, mFTP v2 IRC, AmIRC
vlt, CLChat News and mNews vl , The CD will also have the enhanced, full ver-
sion of AmiTCF 4.3 DialUP. There are package options being considered too,
such as one which will include a 2S.8 modem and cables which would retail at
El 59, end 1 in Germany for 3&9DM. The product is scheduled for release mid-July
and more details of deals and prices for other countries will be announced
nearer to release.
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Printer time
Star Micronics, one of the world's largest
printer manufacturers, is showing off
its current range of printers which
promise to suit all needs. Included in the
range are dot matrix, laser and thermal
printers.
One of the printers available is the
WinType 4000 which is a low-cost
' Windows laser printer which produces
high quality 600 dpi class output at four
pages per minute. PostScript amd HP
LaserJet II emulation are also available as
standard in this small footprint printer,
which can also be used with DOS applica-
tions running under Windows. It is priced
at £119 and has a running cost of 0.94 p
and £1.9 B per page.
QlSCORP REVEALS ALL
The 1 9 May saw VIScorp revealing its plans to an eager Amiga community Everyone from devel-
opers, vendors, users and press gathered in Toulouse to hear what had to be said. VlScorp's
CEO, Bill Buck, gave an opening speech in which he pledged commitment to the Amiga. He
stated: "...we think the Amiga computer represents a valuable choice to the market place and
we believe it can be a profitable business."
He laid out the companies plans of a twin set-top and desk-top business and praised the
Amiga's operating system, "We think it still lives. The only multimedia and multitasking operat-
ing system in the world in our opinion." For further coverage of the conference see our report
this issue on page 21.
QlDEOMASTER RELAUNCH
Eyetech has announced the relaunch of the Videomaster PCMCIA, which allows motion video
and simultaneous sound capturing and editing. The Videomaster can also be used as a stereo
sound s-bit digitiser and a still frame colour digitiser.
It first appeared in 1993 courtesy of MicroDeal, and Eyetech has
said that the reason for the relaunch is that when the
product was first released most people with AfsOOs ,..-•-""' cy*t«ctt »f*uttth«
and A12Q0S didn't have enough memory or a (n » VHtnomaatar pchc
hard drive, which are essential for multime-
dia. Now, however, Eyetech believes that
the situation has changed and most peo-
ple have the requirements available foi
the Videomaster.
The complete package includes
sound and video stream editing soft-
ware and a utility to convert these into
Anim-5 format animations. Eyetech also
stresses the video-master's advantage ofl
being attached via the PCMCIA port, leaving \
the parallel and serial ports free for the prin-\
ter and modem. Contact Eyetech on 01&42
71 3 T 85 for more details.
Amiga Computing
AUGUST J 996
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accelerators, memory expansions etc.
• Does not use or interfere with the PCMCIA
slot or any other port,
• Includes CD-ROM installation software,
• CD 3 2 Emulation enables the majority of
CD32 titles to be used on the A1200.
• Audio CD placer software allows you to
play your audio CDs.
■ Unlike most other CD ROM drive systems
the Ultra CD ROM drive does not cause
long delays when booting up.
The interface simply plugs onto
the 44 pin IDE connector inside the
computer (still allows a 2.5* or 3.5'
internal hard drive to be used as well!)
and provides a connector in the blanking
plate at the rear of the A 1200 next to
the mouse socket. This can be installed
by anyone in 5 minutes!
AH cables, instructions, interface,
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EAL WORLD
World Construction Set, the terrain modelling
and animation software, looks set to astound
once again with its Version 2 follow-up.
Questar, the company behind World
Construction) Set, has told us that Version 2 rs
now available, The pre-release included a
coupon for a free upgrade to the final version.
The company has pledged continued sup-
port to the Amiga and it says that although
World Construction Set is being converted to
other platforms, Amiga users get it first and
cheaper than other platforms.
Version 2 has plenty of new features includ-
ing 3D evolving clouds, 3D shaded bitmap
trees, and highly realistic ground textures. More
water options have also been developed such
as accurate reflections. Check out its Web site
for the latest at: http://www.di mensional.
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OUSE MATTERS
The unfortunate (ahem) news this month is
that our much loved editor, Ben Vost, has left
us for pastures new, He disappeared six
weeks ago leaving a note to say that he had
gone trainspotting. Allegedly, though he
had become increasingly concerned
about his missing budgie and set out to
find it
Since leaving, we have discovered a large
hole under his desk where he bad been tun-
nelling his way out He was last seen in the
Bath area. Police have warned that anyone
who sees vost should not approach him as
he is very, very smelly.
New and much better looking editor Tina
Hackett commented yesterday on his leaving.
She remarked: "Bin Vest will be sadly missed
by his colleagues, but not as much as the
mangy dog, Scamp, who sat fondly under his
desk."
Legendary Design Technologies, the American company behind
the program Link \l[ has a solution available if your Amiga
mouse packs in. Called the AmiPC Power Mouse, it allows a
standard PC serial mouse to be used on an Amiga. The AmiPC
Power Mouse requires Amiga DOS 2,0 or higher and works with
almost every Amiga application, It also provides an emergency
program which you can use if your mouse breaks.
You can buy either the software which retails at ST 4,95 or the
AmiPC Power Mouse with a standard serial mouse and adapter
for $24,95, Also on offer is the Microsoft Y mouse and adapter
for £49-95, For more information e-mail the company at
legend.® io.org
Oops
Apologies to Parth Galen for a mistake we made in our review
of its Sofia! k speech synthesis programs. The Sofia! k product
itself sells for S7.50 and not $35 which we quoted. We
apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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Final Writer 5 is almost ready for
release courtesy of Softwood. The
latest version will feature many
enhancements which are intended
to create a more useful and user-
friendly program. There are 23 new
features which include a useful
HTML en port. Datatype support for
imported graphics, AuloCorreet and
tables.
Also from SoftWood is its new
Web page service which offers users
the chance to publish their own
Web page on Softwood's server.
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graphics or links you want to use. You can also modify your site once a year and post your e-mail address on the site,
Prices vary and to buy Final Writer on: its own will cost £74.95. However, for Owners of other SoftWood products it
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not be going into full production of the Safari Font
CD due to other CD development. Instead it will be
releasing a limited addition Cold Disc Safari Font
CD whidt contains the complete set of Starfdnts,
Mathematical Symbols fonts and two sets a!
Egyptian Hieroglyphics fonts. It is available now
lor £39.9$ + postage and packing and all the
Jbnfc came in Compugraphic, Adobe Type 1,
Truetype and Amiga Bitmap formats. Call quickly
on 0t}55 43 1389 as it's first came, first served'
ONITORS R US
Hitachi has just launched its new \7 inch moni-
tor, coiled the I7MVX-V2. This hot on on-screen
display and a 023mm horiiontat mask pitch.
Priced of £549, it offers tikker free images to at
least 75Hz for resolutions from 640x480 up to
1,024x768. There are many controls which
include brightness, contrast, iide pincushion and
RGB colaur control.
Benchmark
A flew replacement lor Workbench has been
released this month. Called MSench, it has the
advontage aver workbench in that it can do
everything workbench can do, but also means
you don't have to wail around for icon loading or
copying tiles. Compatible with oil Amigas run-
ning OS2.04+, it includes a MARexx port which
allows easy expansion and progress requesters,
which means you can cancel or see the progress
of copy and delete practises. Contact Mark
Hewitt for more details (MA,Hewitt@eiteter.ocuk
MBftelt - the nm« matti-tsmking
replacement for trorkbancfr
FlRSTNET ISP
A new Northern Internet Service Provider railed
Firstnet has announced o service which offers
Internet access with a low modem-to-user rath
and wide bandwidth. It has a dial-up rate of
£12.50 + VAT per month for unlimited access and
customers who already have a subscription with
a different ISP can take advantage of the one off
set-up fee of £25- 4-VAl As well as its Web home-
page, Ftrstnet also offers WWW authoring, LAN
and WAN installations and maif-to-desk solution*.
Its Website is at httpjywww.tirstnelco.uk and you
can contact by phone on 01 13 294 4224.
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Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
Oregon scrambles
for Termite
Qs you read this, Oregon Research should be frantically shipping its Termite TCP package
out the door. In early Jure, the company took its order and information fines off the hook
to dedicate 100 per tent of its resources to the completion of the project.
Termite TCP is a full-featured TCP/IP networking stack for Amiga computers, promising the
ability to create local networks of Amigas and other computers, as well as allowing users to con-
nect to Internet service providers and access the wealth of information available online, It also
promises compatibility with AmiTCP network applications, AmiTCP has become one of the most
prominent network packages for the Amiga, and the majority of new networking tools are
designed to its standards.
As a companion piece, Oregon Research will soon ship iBrcwse, the high-powered World
Wide Web browser developed by Omnipresence International and published by HiSoft,
Contact Oregon Research by phone on (001) 503.-620-4919, Or e-mail orresr2teleport.com.
I5CORP Dl RECTORS
ON BOARD
new
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ViScorp has added three new directors to its
board of trustees. The addition of Robert J
Wussler, King R Lee, and Robert E Reid brings
the VIScorp board to six members, joining the
company's chairman, founder, and CEO.
Mr Wussler is an experienced figure in the
world of television, having served as a top
executive in two major American broadcast
corporations. He is described by Chairman
Jerry Green berg as having "a deep under-
Standing of technologies such as satellite
communications, cable television, and
interactive media,"
Mr Lee's background is rooted in the com-
puter industry, having served as CEO of JfTree
Company and, more recently, Quarterdeck
Corporation, two noted producers of PC soft-
ware. Currently, he serves as CEO of Wynd
Communications Corp,, which was founded
by him to be a two-way wireless messaging
service provider,
Mr Reid is President and! CEO of Engis
Corporation, which produces precision dia-
mond industrial products. His experience
with worldwide licensing and manufacturing
processes are expected to prove very helpful
to VIScorp in the future,
For more information, contact VIScorp on
(001) 3I2-655-0903,or http://www.vistv.com
online.
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AWeb by Yvon Rorijn, the World Wide Web browser referred to by
some as The Pride of the Netherlands,, is coming all (he way to
Canada for commercial release. AWeb 1,0 was released earlier in
the year as shareware, but did not boast a full set of modern HTML
features..
The commercial version, dubbed AWeb- II, continues the full
HTML 20 support and adds features such as background tiles and
images, enhanced ARexx support, e-mail, FTP, telnet, and Usenet
newsreading, and other HTML 3 characteristics such as frames,
AWeb- II will also include HTML-Heaven 2,0, a former shareware
product that works with your favorite text editor to make creating
HTML easy. Previously registered owners of AWeb in and HTML-
Heaven 1.0 will be offered special upgrade rates.
AmiTrix Development is
^miTriX
Develgpment\
an Alberta -based firm specialising in Amiga hardware and soft-
ware. It is the North American distributor of the AmigaLink floppy-
port networking hardware and manufactures custom SCSI solutions
for the COTV and A570 CD-ROM drive.
AWeb! I is slated for release on July 1, with the retail price
expected to be US 145. For more information contact AmiTrix
Development on 5JI2 - 47 SL Beaumont, Alberta, T4X IH9 Canada,
phone or fax (00 1 } 403-929-8459, or e-mail sales@amitrix.com. You
can also find AmiTrix on the Internet at http://www.nctwarhx.com/ i
amrtrix/indei.html.
For more information on AWeb, point AWeb l .0 or your favorite
browser to http://huizen.dds.nl/, aweb/. 1ZZ££Z£^7
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
by Jason Compton
EGENDS
JOIN
SPLINTER
COMPANY
In the wake of Amiga Technologies' manage-
ment and staff shake-up, former AT president,
Stefan Domeyer, has established a new com-
pany, PIOS, to develop and market a next^en-
eration PowerPC computer on many o! the
ideals and principles of the Amiga, PIOS' plans
include developing an operating system quite
similar to the familiar AmigaOS.
To help reach these ambitious goals,
Domeyer has called on two of the most
prominent ex-Commodorians of recent times.
pius
Dave Haynie and Andy Finkel, formerly of
Commodore's Amiga Rs\D division,, have
joined [he team, Haynie as Project Manager
Hardware and Finkel as Project Manager
Software-
Dave Haynit's contributions to the Amiga
are legendary. After leaving Commodore dur-
ing the 1994 bankruptcy, he joined Scala. He
has continued to be an Amiga user and advo-
cate, as well as writing DiskSalv directing The
Deathbed Vigil, the videotape documentary of
the last days of Commodore
Andy Finkei's name should not be new to
Commodore fans. His involvement with
Commodore software development dates
back to the early 60s and the Vk-20, In later
years, he managed OS development and was
one of the key individuals working on
PowerPC development on a contract basis for
Amiga Technologies, In addition, PfOS has
brought Dr Peter Kittel, late of Commodore
Germany and Amiga Technologies, on as their
Support Manager,
PIOS will be a company to watch closely in
the coming critical months of the Amiga's
course. Visit PtOS online at htlp://www.
pios.de,
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Extracting
CoverDisk files
Before you even think of putting the
coverdisks anywhere near your com-
puter you should make sure you
write protect them by moving the
black tab in the top corner of the
disk so you can see through the
hole. Doing this makes sure you can-
not damage your disks in anyway.
There is no reason why the
cover disks need to be written to, so
even if the computer asks you to
write enable the disks, don't do it
To extract any single archive, sim-
ply double-click its icon and follow
the on-screen instructions. If you
want to quickly extract the program
to RAM, select the NOVICE level on
the welcome screen and press pro-
ceed once on the current screen, and
then again on the next The program
can then be found in your RAM disk.
Normally most programs need fur-
ther installing, so read the docu-
ments on how to do this.
Hard Drive
USERS
Hard drive users do not have to boot
with the first disk, but you must
make sure you have the Amiga's
Installer program in your C drawer.
To make sure your hard drive has the
correct files in place, doubleclick on
the SetupHD icon. This will check if
you have the Installer program and
if not wilt copy it across - do not
worry as it will not write over any
existing files,
All you hard drive owners will find
M u It i Extract very useful. It is a sepa-
rate method of extracting the
coverdisk files and allows you to
extract a number of files in one go,
to your hard disk or RAM.
When you run MultiExtract you
will be presented with a number of
check boxes, each representing one
of the programs on that coverdisk.
Just de-select all the programs you
do not want extracting and then
press proceed. All the selected pro-
grams can now miraculously be
found in the selected destination.
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cast genbcking and the Amiga's ability to
replay high resolution animations make it a
perfect choice for video titling.
X-DVE gives you access to a whole host of
stunning effects by providing you with a
number of base 'object' types such as text.,
graphic, animation, anim brush, start fields
and then, by allowing you to apply any of X-
PVE's various effects independently to each
object you have on screen, a huge variety of
overall effects are possible.
Once you have extracted the X-DVE archive
and copied its drawer onto your hard drive,
you need to set up the correct libraries for
your machine before you run X-DVE 2, There
are three sets of libraries available - one for
people with plain Al 200s, one for those who
have an 030 accelerator with FPU, and a final
set if you h^ve a full 040/060 with FPU. It Is
important that you select the correct libraries
otherwise when X-DVE comes to render a
final animation, your machine will crash.
If you want to get a quick idea of what X-
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gram select load script and choose one of the
four available demo scripts from the file
requester. You can now either select to view
a preview animation that shows the path all
the screen objects will take in wire frame
form, or select to render a final animation to
memory. If you do this it will take a while, so
be prepared for await.
Due to the way X-DVE handles everything
in terms of objects that have effects applied
to them r each object you add can be consid-
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AUGUST 1995
New features
• Automatic support of OS3
picture datatypes
• New 'MuitiBrush' object to
import image sequences
from disk
• Multiline Text objects with
programmable spacing and
centering
• Brush Object can now bad
the first frame of any IFF-
Anim
• Anti-Rising
• New attributes for every
object: Bevel, 3D, Shadow,
Background, Solid, Outline.
• Programmable resolution,
from 520x200 to 1472x592
pixel
• Better IFF rendering -
render the whole script or a
single frame
• 10 New Slide effects, with
the stunning 'Melt' and
'Carpet'
• New J Warp r family with
40 effects, re^dy-to-use 3D
sequences
• Urts of new Wind effects,
three new base formulas
• Single object or full script
frame-by-frame preview
with VCR-like controls
• Support of continuous
loop animations
• Render speed doubled
for 3D, Warp and
Lightsourced effects
• 3/16 ai Degree precision
for 3D rotations
• Compression speed
highly improved
• Faster play speed under
QS2)H
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even more flexible
X-DVE2, THE RIGHT CHOKE
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and for how long each object is on screen
using the IN, OUT and PAUSE entries far each
object To add a new object select the type
you want from the cycle gadget in the object
section - text, would be a good choice - and
press insert. You now have to select what font
you want and what the text should say r Once
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say which frame the object should appear in
and, once the enuy effect has finished, how
many frames it should stay before the exit
effect kicks in.
The IN and OUT entries let you specify
what sort of effect should bring that object
onto and off the screen and how many
frames it should take. Click on either and you
get the requester which lets you specify what
should happen for each element
Select lets you choose one of five possible
effects to apply to the current object These
can either be 3-D zoom, wind, slide and a type
of warp zooming iround the screen. You can
always just have the object appear on screen.
When an IN effect takes place its end posi-
tion is fined by clicking on the PAUSE button,
which opens a screen with a wire frame box
that you can then move around to where you
want the first effect to finish. This, therefore,
is also where the OUT effect will start from.
You then have to set up how the actual effect
will look. Depending on the effect type, you
will have to define different positions or pick
a pre-defined effect. In each object's
requester there is a preview button which will
give you a wire frame preview for just that
object, as opposed to the main preview that
will show the entire script
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Author Helmut: Hoffmann
Workbench 3-0
To run this program
you need to have
Magic User Interface
3.1 or higher installed
cm your computer, MU1
is available from any
| good PD house and without it you will not
i able to run any MUl program
We have had a couple qf picture cata-
loguers on the cover disks in the past but
this one not only provides all the features
of those but is also really fast and if you
have a CyberGraphX card it will take
advantage of all those enhanced screen
modes. PhotoAlbum also has direct sup-
port for a huge number of picture file
types as well as Datatype support.
This is a shareware program and, as
such, this demo version only allows you '
to have grayscale preview and full screen
images. The registered version allows
colour previews, up to 256 colours on
ACA machines and 24-bit with
CyberGraphX boards, along with a num-
ber of extra enhancements that wilt fie
added.
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Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
To run this program you
need to have Magic User
Interface installed on
your computer. MUI is
available from any good
PD house and without it
you will not be able to run any MUI program
TinyMeter
Author: Time Urou
Workbench 2.04
I have resisted putting this program on the
cover disk for a while now because it was
originally just a fancy memory meter.
However, the author has now added so
much to it that I thought it was about time it
appeared,
TinyMeter is probably the most attractive
memory, disk, CPU usage and program
launcher you can get Through the MUI pref-
erence program you can adjust every aspect
of TinyMeter's interface by applying fonts,
patterns and adding icons. Because of this,
initially setting up TinyMeter can take a while
but it is worth it as you end up with a great
baking dashboard.
ATA PI DEVICE
Author Elaborate Bytes and Oliver KAStl
Workbench 2.54
To go along with this month's octal speed
CD-ROM round up, which did sport quite a
few ATAPi CD drives, 1 thought it would be a
good idea to put an ATAPI device on the disk
so that if you did fancy getting yourself erne of
those ridiculously fast CD drives, you could
use it straight away-
The archive comes with a very good
installer that makes selecting the CD drive a
simple matter, Basically, when you fit the
ATAPi CD drive make sure it is set up as the
slave IDE drive otherwise your Amiga will not
boat.
FlushMem
Author: Alan Ooyle
Workbench 2.01
Every time a program is run on the Amiga it
asks for certain system resources such as
libraries, fonts and devices which are loaded
into memory and the program will then hap-
pily run. This is not too bad a situation if only
a couple of fonts or libraries that are com-
monly used are in memory, but if you have
the situation where one program makes
heavy use of system resources and loads
many libraries, devices or fonts, then this can
be a drain on memory because when you
quit these resources will not be removed
from memory, Two example programs that
do this are Image Engineer arid MUI.
FlushMem allows you to reclaim this used
memory at the touch of a few keys, possibly
freeing 100 kilobytes of memory. The pro-
gram is only 10* so it is a prime candidate
for your W&Startup drawer, and the hot keys
can be set up from the program's icon Tool
Types.
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Author: Time Urou
Workbench 2.04
If you are anything like our games reviewer, Andy Maddock, you will be literally running
around like a headless chicken shouting ream at the top of your voice at the very thought of
a having a Championship Manager editor. Well this is exactly what you have got.
The program itself is written in AmosPro, but is done very well and runs on our A4000
and on 0&0 machines and quits back to the Workbench without any problems.
This is an unregistered version of CM Ed that has some of the features disabled, but even
so many of the functions work. If you want CMEd to be continually developed then you
should send a crisp tenner to the hard working chaps who wrote CMEd. They are students
so your money will not go to waste - probably just down their throats.
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This is another 'I like that feature of Window,
let's have that with Workbench' type of utility.
ScreenTab has two uses, firstly, if you move the
mouse to the bottom of the screen a task bar
will appear, allowing you to jump between
screens by clicking on the screen you want. The
Other side to the program is used by pressing
its hotkey, resulting in a window in the middle
of your screen appearing. By then going
through ail the screen choices you can jump to
another application's screen.
There are a number of extra (unctions
available such as adding small icons for
different screens and applications, and you
tan exclude the task bar from appearing on
certain screens if you do not want it there.
Easylink
Author Tinic Urou
Workbench 2.04
If you are having to continually work with PCs in close proximity to your Amiga, the easiest
way to transfer files is via some sort of network. Unless you are willing to fork out for an
Ethernet card, you are left with either using a terminal program or some sort of dedicated
software such as Easylink. Easylink is a PARNet-Style network, but for Amiga/PC data
transfer via a simple Gadtool interface on the Amiga side. Speed wise, Easylink is not going
to set the world alight, but rf you register for the full Turbo version then it is up to four times
quicker.
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Amiga Computing
AUGUST S996
PrintManager v2
Auth or: rink Urou
Workbench 2.04
A print spooler is something rot everyone needs but
PrintManager is very well implemented and is small
enough - only I4K - to leave in your WBStartup,
working invisibly so you will not even know it is
there-
PrintManager sits on top of either the parallel or
serial device and wilf spool printer device calls, so
modem users will not be effected. Having
PrintManager has a number of advantages. For
eiample r if your system crashes while printing you
can restart what you have already printed, or if you
tell it to save off the spool file you can take that and
print it off on another printer.
If you have Workbench 3, using the datatypes
allows PrintManager to directly print any support
datatype that can be viewed using MuftiView. As
PrintManager can have both an Appicon and
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App window you can just drag and drop the text or
picture file you want printing into either the Appicon
on the Workbench screen or into PrintManger J s win-
dow. PrintManager is a commodity so you can use'
exchange or its hotkey to pop open its window at
any point,
EasyPrint
Author: Andrea Latins
Workbench 2,04
Confront
Author Martin Hoffmann
Workbench 2.04
I think I'm still going to be complaining about
the Amiga's printing capabilities for a long
time, and until someone does something
about it. there are always going to be pro-
grams appearing to ease the situation.
EasyPrint is another program that allows you
to print pictures at their full 24-bit colour
quality, improving both grayscale output
because you can have the full 1 256 shades
of grey and colour images as opposed to
the Amiga's normal 10-year old, 12 -bit
efforts,
As standard, this version of easy print will
only handle the Amiga's standard IFF-ILBM
images, but the full version can load jpegs
and any installed datatype picture. Once you
have loaded a picture into EasyPrint Lhere are
various things to do to it before it is printed
out to your printer.
The colours of the pictures can be adjusted
by changing the gamma, brightness or
contrast levels in either RGB or CMYK modes.
Confront is a powerful font converter program that allows you to change fonts used with Pagestream into
three dimensional objects suitable for use with programs such as Videoscape and Cinema 4D. Pdgestream
fonts store only the scalable outlined data of each of the individual letters, so Confront will take this data
and produce the three dimensional objects constructed out of individual triangles.
The interface is fairly straightforward, and the program starts working in German, but you can change
the language to either English or Spanish from the end menu.
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Image engineer problems
It seems there was a possible problem with (he SuperVtew
install script on last month's coverdisk. If Image Engineer is
reporting that it cannot open version 12 of the SuperView
libraries, you have this problem.
The solution is very simple. For some reason the installer
was not copying across one of the SuperView libraries, so you
will have to do this yourself. Extract the SuperView archive to
RAM, open up its drawer and you should see the install icon
and a number of drawers. Open up the libs drawer and you
should see a few other drawers and two library files. You need
to copy the 5»pervJewsuppor1.libfary file across to your
Workbench Libs drawer. You may have to select show ait fifes
from the Workbench menu to find the Libs drawer.
Once you have copied this file across, Image Engineer will
work without a hitch. If you already had the SuperView
libraries installed you would not have had a problem running
Image Engineer, but you should do this as well as this is a
slightly more up-to-date library file.
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Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
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i
Oust when you thought that the
Amiga technology was in safe
hands and further development
and products were promised,
everything again was turned upside down
with the announcement of VI Scarp's inten-
tions to purchase the Amiga, At the WOA
show, Bill Buck could say little except that the
Amiga would continue to be produced by AT
and no dramatic changes were promised. He
said a full picture of VlScorp's plans for the
Amiga would be presented at the Frankfurt
computer show on 24 April but, unfortunat-
ely, the Frankfurt date was cancelled and in
its place a developers' conference was sched-
uled for 19 May In Toulouse in the South of
France.
This was billed as the day the future of the
Amiga computer was to be decided, and sure
enough that is what happened. Now, despite
the serious lack of companies from the UK
and major German players tike Phase 5 (see
"VIScorp is committed to the
future of the Amiga
computer. We're not talking
about the set-top box only,
we are actually sneaking
Amigas into homes across
the world"
SrkLafftuit
boKOUt), there was an impressive turnout
VIScorp also brought some major
Amiga celebrities along - after ;
this day was to be a working
conference, and with the likes
of Carl Sassenrath and Don
Gil breath at hand it
became just that.
The day started with
Bill Buck giving his own
persona! guarantees. He
said that although the
deal, at the moment, was
still based on just a hand'
shake between himself and
Helmutt Jost, VI Scarp will b
the owner of the Amiga. He
then positioned himself centre
stage and said VIScorp was commit
ted to the future of the Amiga computer.
VIScorp befieves that the Amiga can still be a
valuable choice for the marketplace. Bill Buck
l' '« Carl SaaenraHi tnodrh
Ike Amiga fhring T-shirt
announced that the main support lor devel-
opers and users would be the Internet, which
would contain documentation on Amiga pro-
gramming and be used as a way to support
all the different countries they are now
talking to,
Future sales
VIScorp has a dear vision of what it wants to
do in the future and thinks that by 1 997 there
will be more Amigas sold than have ever
been before. To do this it will have to sell
more than four million Amigas. Now that's a
big promise, but by the time you read this
VIScorp should have announced that a big
company that makes TV sets will put this set-
top bo* inside its televisions. VIScorp needs
Amiga developers and Bill Buck made it
dear that the past was the past, it
was now going forward and was
going to demonstrate this even/
step of the way, As an example,
he said that if VIScorp wasn't
going to do something he J d
let us know. He then contin-
ued by saying that a Walker
before Christmas was unlik-
ely, but he did say he was
willing to work with anyone
who wanted to pick up the ball
V and run with it (see boxout).
What will VIScorp do now for
the Amiga? Firstly, it will introduce
a new version of the operating system
by the 4th quarter. Secondly, it will release
its own products together with the ED whkh
can be adapted in certain ways to add new
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AUGUST 1996
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functionality to the A 1 200 and A4000. Bill
Buck also reiterated VIStorp's willingness to
work with people on any development pro-
jects, such as porting the OS to some other
platform, However, he thinks there is another
solution and has already been in conversa-
tion with Digital about the Alpha chip but
this wouldn't be possible before the middle
of 1997.
The power users will have to wait until the
Phase 5 Amiga, but for now we have the ED,
Bill Buck gave a demo of what the ID could
do, but it wasn't running the Amiga OS but an
OS written by Carl Sassenrath that VlScorp
used before it had the rights to use the Amiga
OS. The overhead projector was black and
white and the graphics were makeshift but
as the demo went on I couldn't help but get
more and more interested,
What we were being shown was a very
cost-effective magic Internet and comms box.
Firstly, the bo* integrated the telephone with
the TV. ED can store your numbers and you
can phone by speaking into the television,
using the t emote control to dial, and if some-
one phones you, their name can be gen-
locked onto the screen. Secondly, there is the
internet and other on-line services, We were
shown the ED connecting to an audio text
service, to CompuServe,, and sending a fax,
and the use of existing services will ensure
that ED has pEenty of programs when it is
launched.
Networking
Okay, so why was I so excited? Well, here we
have the prospect of a huge network of cam -
outers all based on the Amiga OS, all com-
pletely compatible, and the possibility of a
rebirth in Amiga software development
Multiplayer games, BBSs, Internet, on-line
services, TV guide, phone directory, diary/cal-
endar and fax/telephone all in one box, and
they ail cross over into television as well. It
would be possible, for example, to be watch-
ing an advert on TV and with the press of a
button, speak to sales or source more infor-
mation from the adverts Web site, Finally, the
ED isn't much different to a desktop Amiga -
plug a keyboard and monitor into an expan-
sion card and voila, the ED is a new Amiga-
Don Gil breath then gave us the low-down
on the ED's hardware, even showing us the
first board to run off the production line. The
ED has several high-speed serial ports and an
EPP parallel port with a modular build to lake
comma and video cards for each country. The
board has space for 4Mb of ROM and some
FastRAM, but it was not yet decided how
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ALKER MOVES ON
0TILL A POSSIBILITY
This was the week that Phose5 announced details of its new PPC Amiga done. The specs
were impressive and certainty made an amazing compute?, but with the announcement
come the news that communication between AT and Phases had been almost nonexistent
over the past few months. This accounted iot the delays in delivery of the Powewp dei*r-
oper boards and also the break away now being made by Phas*;5.. At this point there had
been no talks with VlScorp, although a meeting was being arranged for the week following
the Toulouse meeting.
'- Tat panel
ottMpMfU
much, however, The ED has
additional DMA channels to
handle transfer speeds of up to
45Mb/s, and there is also a dou-
bfe-sided remote with Qwerty \ '
keyboard on one side.
What about the OS? Well, Carl
Sassenrath, dressed in an origin
Amiga Boing T-shirt, took up the mic and
said he was glad to be in the position again
of having a chance to continue the original
ethos of the Amiga as a machine for the
home, We're not talking about the set-top
box only, we are actually sneaking Amigas
into homes across the world,
Wait* it may not be the end for the Walker, t have heard of two
companies interested in taking over the project, and, whilst writ-
ing this article, of unconfirmed news that a German manufac-
turer was going to make them and badge them under the name
RTL a large German TV network. Let's hope this is the First of
many close co-operations with other companies that. ViScorp so
wants to build following this Toulouse conference.
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Insight
Then he gave us an insight into how he was
going to add to the Amiga OS and try to fill
the 4Mb of ROM. ft would have all the extra
device drivers, a high performance embed-
ded TCP/IP stack, PPP and SLIP for dialling
up the Internet, FTP and SMTP protocols for
fife and mail transfers, some file codecs like
Lha to allow software archives such as
Aminet to work transparently Jpeg and GIF
decompression code, Wave, Aiff and other
Internet-standard file formats. Also included
will be most of tjie tools needed for on-line
services such as Web browser and e-mail
software, and some extras such as an
on-screen doodler, video capture and
security. This should give us some clues as to
what may be in the new version of the
Amiga OS for the desktop promised by
3 ill Buck.
Eric Laffont then reported mainly about
the internet He had received over 2000 e-
mails of support and ideas, and most people
were concerned that they were going to be
let down and wanted VlScorp to know how
they felt about the Amiga. A large number
said they would buy another Amiga, even
though most people already had more than
one. Let's hope VlScorp can continue to lis-
ten to its users as they have demonstrated
n A tusopkturt t,f thr first td motherboard
here, The afternoon was conducted in three
Secture rooms. One contained a handful of
Amigas running demos, and was where the
Amiga users discussed the morning's events
and swapped Amiga chit chat The dealers
and distributors were discussing logistics and
the current set-up of the Amiga in another
room and finally, there was the developers'
room. This was like an Amiga school, with
Carl Sassenrath and Don Gilbreath as [he
teachers. Here, however, the conversation
became quite heated as several developers
pointed out that the Amiga was still in the
same position as three years ago. This, obvi-
ously, was true, but was nothing to do with
VlScorp.
Promises promises
Eventualfy it all calmed down and everyone
began absorbing the technical details of the
ED and discussing the future of the Amiga.
Surely what VlScorp was promising could
prove to turn out rather well for the Amiga
developer community - the possibility of a
mass market for its products must give hope.
It was interesting to hear that vlSfflrp had
already been to see BeBox about using- its
multiprocessor PowerPC hardware for a
future Amiga. So maybe VlScorp did mean
business and the Amiga wasn't in such bad
hands. The whole day was a great success
and we were promised more in the Mure in
other countries, -^
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hen it games to pictures in pub-
. / lishing, resolution is all impor-
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good looking pictures then
there is no substitute for a quality scan. You
can try using a VIDI grab but even at high
resolutions it will appear fuiiy compared to
a scan.
Scanners also win hands down when it
comes to the maximum resolution achiev-
able. If you consider our cover images are
around 3000 by 4000 pixels, give or take a
few hundred either way, the only way you
can get an image from the real world of this
quality is by using a scanner.
The GT - 5000 is. an A4 sized flat bed
scanner. A flat bed is, obviously, always
going to produce better results than a hand
scanner because a hand scan is fairly reliant
on how steadily you can draw the scanner
over the picture. A scan tray can help out
but you will never get the precision that the
mechanism in the scanner can produce.
Actual scan area is 297 mm by 21 G mm so
will comfortably accommodate A4 sized
paper, which just happens to be the size of
Amiga Computing now. Physically, the act-
ual scanner is not much larger than the scan
area - a foot wide and a foot and half long
- and with it being colour co-ordinated with
the Amiga, strangely enough, sits very
nicely alongside your computer.
Superiority
There are two versions of the scanner. One
comes with a 5C5! interface and the other is
the parallel port version. Unfortunately,
Amiga users cannot take advantage of the
SCSI version at the moment as there is sim-
ply no software that supports it. The SCSI
version is going to be superior to the paral-
lel port version because data will be trans-
mitted faster from the scanner, even though
the overall quality of the scan will not be
affected.
Before you can use the parallel scanner
Being almost a third smaller
than the GT-6500, with
thinner sides and front, and
almost twice as fast the
5000 is a more than
admirable replacement and
y penny
you also need an Amiga-specific parallel
cable. The pin out is provided by ImageFX
but most Amiga specialist retailers such as
Power Computing and First Computers will
provide the cable and even the scan soft-
ware either bundled with the scanner or as
an extra. Consequently, you do not have to
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AUGUST 1995
worry about the embarrassment of having
to trudge down to Maplins and then heat
up your soldering iron,
Epson's usual minimalist style of casing
manages to find its way to the GT-500Q,
with it sporting a single power button and a
reset button, Other than that you are just
left with three display LEDs.
On that all-important subject of resolu-
tion, this Epson is the low-end model of the
CT range but still has an impressive specifi-
cation, With an optical scan resolution of
300 dpi it should more than suffice for ail
but the most demanding situations, and if
you really need a higher resolution the
Epson can output up to 2400 dpi using
interpolation. This is the process whereby
the scan head is tracked back over the same
area a number of times, in slightly off-set
positions, and the scanner then works out
what is in-between from these multiple
scans.
Precision
The end results are not going to be as sharp
and precise as using an optically true §00 or
900 dpi scanner, but if you need an extra
large scan then at least the CT-5000 has the
option of allowing you to get extra high dpi
scans. The other downside to the interpo-
lating is that due to the scan bead having to
make multiple passes, anything over 300
dpi is going to take much longer because
the scanner basically has to make two,
three or four times as many scan passes.
Speed wise the Epson is good.
Initialisation and warm up takes only a few
seconds, and it provides lightning quick pre-
views and grey scale scans. When it comes
to 24-bits. scans things do slow down a lit-
tle. At 100 dpi you tan expect a fairly
speedy M scan to take about a minute, but
with higher resolutions such as 300 dpi you
can expect a longer wait of around nine
TWARE
'blow up' a small section of a picture, scan-
ning at a high dpi provides the perfect way to
do so.
One huge advantage ImageFX has is its
built-in virtual memory. This allows ImageFX
to load and process images that are too big
to fit into your computer's normal memory,
and unlike conventional virtual memory you
do not need a MMU, ImageFX's ability to use
this pseudo-virtual memory is indispensable
because even scanning at resolutions as law
as 200 dpi requires H Mb of free memory,
and without it you can forget about scanning
at anything above 100 dpi. You could say
that ImageFX is limiting by only going up to
1200 dpi, but considering this produces a vir-
tual memory file of around 430Mb, I cannot
see too many people being put off by this.
Setting up ImageFX for the first time is a lit-
tle confusing because as standard it looks for
an ASDG-styk parallel lead. This can cause
caching problems with 040 processors, so
Norn Design recommends you use what it
refers to as a GVP~styie lead. When you first
minutes. Due to the control
imageFX allows you to have over the
scanner, primarily gamma, colour and
brightness correction, you can quickly get
superb results. The scanner managed to
■ « »
reproduce
all the rather
psychedelic and
pastel colours of our July issue
excellently,
Originally the GT-6500 was
Epson's entry level scanner, but the
GT-5CC0 comes as its replacement.
Being almost a third smaller, with thin-
ner sides and front, and almost twice as
fast, the 5000 is a more than an admirable
replacement and worth every penny.
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sefect the scanner mode in ImageFX, it warts
about 15 seconds as it tries to talk to the scan-
ner, after which it complains that, it cannot
because it is trying to use the wrong style lead,
You can then change the coble type in the
scanner's extras options, but before you
press the OK button you need to reset the
scanner otherwise ImageFX wilt not recog-
nise that the scanner is active and just sit
there waiting - now that had me baffled for
a while I can tell you.
Once the scanner is up and running you
can run preview scans, either colour or
greyscale, in a matter of seconds and they
are good enough to get a rough idea of what
the final scan will be like. However, the scan-
ner is so fast that you may prefer to run off a
50 dpi scan. ImageFX also allows you to take
advantage of the Epson's extra features, such
as a number of different halftones and a
gamma and colour correction for both VDU
displap and printers. These settings allow
you to get the best colour representation for
your needs.
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I
EIRD
TEXTURES
There's net really much I can say about this
CD as the title says it all - it contains 107a
Weird Textures,
If you like to vary your desktop pattern
from week, to week or you indulge in a spot
of DTV, you can use these textures. The CD
comes with a small booklet/catalogue which
you can flick through to find all the available
textures without even touching the CO itself,
so the process of finding one is probably the
quickest and most efficient - it saves time
loading up each of the 107S textures one
after another.
The textures are saved as iFFs and GIFs so
are all accessible on the Amiga. If you want a
CD with lots and lots of funny coloured
backdrops then this is the one for you.
Bottom
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line
Product details
Product:
1078 Weird Textures
Supplier:
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Price:
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Phone:
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Implementation 90%
Value For
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could be betrer?
I can remember Volume l of the AG A
Experience CD and i think it was one of
the better CD compilations. There were a
lot of compilations out then which stood
out, but the ACA Experience stood head
and shoulders above the rest.
Basically, ACA Experience Vol 1 is just
another collection of games, utilities,
demos, pictures, slideshows, diskmags,
text files, animations, fonts and all the
other usual categories on a compilation.
However, what stands out from all the
rest is that the CD is AGA only which
means the whole CD will be graphically
superior to any other on the market
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the CD which features programs and
demos specially compiled for the AGA
Experience. The companies who make art
appearance are ClickBoom, OTM, Siltunna
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HASE
DESKTOP VIDEO DREAMS
Phase A Is the fourth in the collection from
EMCompytergr-aphic. The last three L7TP col-
lections- have ail received scores of more than
90 per cent, but Phase 4 strays away from
this, focusing instead on desktop video.
The CD contains everything you could
Imagine associated with desktop video.
Whether you're a keen home movie maker or
just want to add some professionalism, you
will find something that will come in useful.
There are background textures, fonts, sound
effects and images to aid you in the presen-
tation of your efforts. There are a large num-
the Amiga games industry. You will find
demos of Capital Punishment, Alien Breed
30 2, XTR and Pinball Prelude amongst
Other recent delights.
The other categories basically feature
everything you'd expect, and although this
may sound stupid, the CD is very Amiga ori-
ented- When you click on the images direc-
tory you won't find pictures of ancient Egypt
or some cute cats, you'll find ones of the
new Power- up board and the fairly new
Walker with its old casing.
The CD is an absolute must for Amiga
enthusiasts and almost everything included
will be useful. It doesn't matter if you are a
serious user or not - this CD is just the
ticket to give your ACA chipset something
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ber of bitmap fonts with IFF previews and
some come with an automatic installation
script so you don't encounter any problems.
For the actual presentation part there are
many samples and modules which have all
been tested, ensuring only the best quality
musical offerings are included.
The last part of the actual creative side is
the backdrops which range from "never seen
before' professional designed backdrops for a
number of topics to some standard coloured
ones such as Marble and Stones. To finish off,
Phase 4 includes demos of some of the best
products available including Optonica's
Multimedia Experience, imageVision and, of
course, DpaintS.
It all adds up to being one of the best DTV
CD packages around today, not to mention
the future. This is undoubtedly the best
Phase CD yet
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Although releasing a sound effect CD may seem a little weird, its
actually a good idea. Okay, so it may not have great demand as an
image CD but there are a handful of owners who delve around into
the artistic and creative sides of the Amiga apart from graphic
artists.
The majority of users, especially budding musicians, will appre-
ciate a music CD containing instrumental sounds for use with
Amiga modules, But SFX is different, It contains hundreds of sam-
ples of absolutely anything, including the usual alarm/bell noises,
door creaks and voices.
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one problem, The CO was originally designed for the PC so you will
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hopelessly lost in a world ol effects,
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few limitations with it being originally designed for the PC.
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Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
Qetnews offline
The Newsgroups on the Internet have been
one of the most popular places for passing
on information about certain subjects- ifs
basically a worldwide notice board which
allows you to 'pin up' your messages for
everyone to read and then they can either
reply to it or throw it away - it's as simple as
that
Over the last few months, the various
Amiga Newsgroups have been over popula-
ted with people asking about Amiga
Technologies and VIScorp, amongst other
topics. NetNews Offline allows- people to
access these questions and answers, written
by these regular attendees to see what's been
going on recently.
Tbe CO contains postings from the popular
tomp.sys.amiga group as well as a number of
others including foreign ones. Overall, there
are over 200,000 articles included and to read
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You have to bear in mind that some of
them may not even be worth reading
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some of them are foreign sc you probably
won't understand them, and they're all out of
date - so is it worth it?
rf you are willing to spend £14.95 to catch
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Qrcade classics plus
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The CD uses one of those amaiingry user-
friendly menu systems by listing the entire cat-
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something that takes your fancy you will be
treated to a brief but informative account of
what the software is and how many disks it will
need during the DMS process, Some of the
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directly into your RAM directory, but the major-
ity of it will require extracting straight to a
floppy disk.
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music disks, demos, clipart and more. The cata-
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the description.
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dard but there are quite a few programs which
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£11.45
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£34.95
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Zip Stick joystick £9.95
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^■^k henever you put products head
4 1 I m t0 "^ ^ Gre ^^V 5 wsrns to
% * I » be this need to ru n some sort of
^^b^ bench ma rk to give tangible evi-
dence that one product is superior to the
other, rather than just relying on our
opinion of which seems better.
In the case of these octal CD drives, how-
ever, there really seems to be no point. The
usual way is to run Sysinf o and jot down an
average from the various figures it spews
up r but in the case of all the octal drives,
they return the obvious figure of 1 200Kb a
second, with only a few K either way.
in general, these CD drives are so fast
that directory listings come up as fast as you
would expect from a hard drive, and in fact
they out perform an A1200 hard drive by
quite a large margin. This makes trying to
do arty test figures for these sort of things
very tricky,
A good way to show just how fast these
drives are is if you do a search for mods
using the Aminet find program. The
AmigaGuide with the search results in
appears in about a second - now that is
Fast
GoldStar
GCD-R580B
Price: £120 + VAT
GoldStar is a fairly new electronics company
with a good reputation for producing low-
cost, feature-packed consumer electronic
equipment, and this octal speed CD drive is
no exception, The best of all the drives, the
GoldStar comes in a pleasantly packaged full
colour box. The drive itself seems to be one
of the sturdily built, and the front loading
tray includes flip-out tabs to keep a loaded
CD in place, allowing the unit to be used on
its side, It has the usual analogue and digital
sound output and, as with many of the other
CD drives, has extra audio CD controls on
the front so you can play audio CDs without
the need for a software audio player on your
computer.
A new generation
of octal speed
CD-ROMs has just
hit the streets, and
Neil Mohr sees if
they are as good
as they claim
Hitachi CDR-7930
Price: £110 + VAT
With Hitachi being one of the most well known etectronic companies, you may have thought
that its drive would be one of the best. However, the poorly packaged drive that came with
just a single PC disk has the most 'tinn/ feel to it of all the drives in the roundup. It has the
expected analogue and digital sound output, along with the expect headphone output with
volume control.
0TAPI CD- ROMS
ft seems, and in reality it is, thai technology matc-
hes to the beat of the PC drum, Consequently, all hut
one of the eight speed CD-ROMs we have reviewed
are what h known as ATAPI aevk.es, which means
they interface with your computer using the normal
IDE interface found in your A } 200 or A4QO0, You will
also be glad to know that yaw Amiga can make use
of these low cost ATAPt CD-ROMs.
As you might have already guessed, you cannot,
just buy yourself an ATAPt CD-ROM, plug a into your
Amiga and expect it to work. Before you can do this
you will need to get hold of an AJAPt device driver.
This may sound a little scary but once you have got
hold of the correct software, setting your Amiga up
to use on ATAPi device is very straightforward.
A commercial solution comes in the shape of
AsimCDFS 3.5 which is available from Blittersoft.
This is a complete set of CD-related tools and utili-
ties that, with, an easy installer, lets you get a SCSI
or ATAPt CD-ROM drive working as quickly and
simply as possible.
If you are not looking for the complete suite of toots
that AsimCDFS provides, a number of quick and easy
public domain solutions are available, one of which
can, handily, be found on this month's coverdisk.
Once you have the software, all you need is the
CD drive and the correct lead to connect everything
up. if you own an A40QQ then as long as you anty
have a single internal IDE hard drive you wit! be
able to put in your new ATAPI CD drive and connect
it up, making sure the ATAPI CD drive is set to slave
and your internal IDE drive is set to master.
A 1200 owners have a few problems. To start with
the A J 200 IDE connector is built for a 2.5" drive, but
all the ATAPI CD drives expect a 3.5" connector.
Therefore, you are going to have to get a special
lead made, or get an adaptor, You will also need on
external drive that comes in a proper box with its
own power supply
Plextor - EPlex
Price: £349 + VAT
The Plextor is the only octal speed SCSI CD drive that we could get for this roundup. It is
reasonably well constructed, even though it only has analogue sound output There are
the extra audio CD controls on the front of the
drive that can be found on most of the other
CD drive j, and it does come with a com
prehensive manual explaining how to
set up the SCSI chain. My major
complaint is that it uses caddies.
They do allow you to use the
drive on its side, and should
extend the life of your CDs, but
they are a pain, especially if ;
you lose one. The Plextor is
available in an external box,
and with an average access
time of 115ms, is the fastest
drive out of the five, even though
you may have a hard time noticing
the difference.
Samsung SCR-803
Price: £129 + VAT
Samsung is perhaps better known as a
monitor manufacturer and it has
managed to produce a CO drive
that is as good as rts monitors.
As with most of the other dri-
ves, you have both ana-
logue and digital sound
output and the handy
front panel audio CD
controls. Unlike all the
other CD drives the
Samsung has a 128Kb
data buffer, but even
so there seems to be
no difference in perfor-
mance. It has a 145 ms
access time that com-
pares well with the rest in
the field, and Samsung
seems to be the only comp-
any that has tried to add any sort
of styling to the front of the CD
with oval style buttons and
"Tftese CD drives are so fast
that directory listings come
up as fast as you would
expect from a hard drive,
and in fact they out perform
an A1200 hard drive by
quite a large margin"
Aztech - Zeta
Price: £119.95 + VAT
Aztech is not exactly the most well known
company in the worid but it has managed
to put together one of the cheapest octal
speed CD drives currently around, which
still provides all the features of the other
drives. Both analogue and digital sound
outputs are available at the back, along with
a head phone socket, volume control and
the seemingly obligatory audio CD controls
on the front,
The only oversight on behalf of the CD
casing Is the lack of any labelling on the
three jumpers that let you select whethe*
the drive should be set to master, slave or
C5LE. This means that if you do have to
change the setting you will have to dig out
the manual - that you have probably lost
The Aztech also has the slowest seek time
at 235 ms, and even though it still has a
transfer rate of 1 ,2Mb/s, this means direc-
tory searches are marginally slower than
most of the others.
drive,
busy LED
Amiga Computing
AUGUST f996
fm
EJying, but not dead
I am a former Amiga user and subscribed to Amiga publications before I even
got my Amiga. I still have the magazines, but I sold my Amiga. I had
of trie first JOTO Towers in the area, put 10 Megs of RAM on it
fast, 2 chip) and instantly I was the power user of the Amiga user
group 1 frequented- I loved my Amiga and dreaded the day I
had to sell it, I got Maybe 1/Sth of the price 1 paid, and I
cheated and got the educational discount. Now I own a
Pentium- 133 machine, 2.4Gigs of HD, 32Mb RAM, run-
ning Windows 95- I'm using a 1024x768k 16-bit colour
display, a NEC 17* monitor and am connected via PPP to
the Internet via local ISP. My sound card has wavetable
synthesis (AWI-32), and everything works great.
I'll admit that Workbench 3.1 was a better OS, and the
Amiga's custom chipset was much better than any Intel tri-
ton, endeavouf or whatever, but I've got to say this, pain me
as it does - the Amiga is dying. Not dead.,, yet- I'm not Amiga-
bashing, but look, Commodore goes bankrupt; the company that
bought the Amiga technology (Escom), who promised it would market
and sell the thing during negotiations, flaked out. So what's worse? A comp-
any that doesn't develop very often and has poor customer service or a company that
does "Of develop and does not even sell the thing? The third- party manufacturers can keep
the boat floating for a while, but without the support of the mother-company, it's dead-
Yes I saw the Walker' prototype spread. Very nice. I really hope that's where the Amiga
is heading. It's time for a new machine. Honestly, I would buy one again if the support was
there, but I've been hearing for about two years now how everything is going to 'bounce
back 1 , and I really think there should be less 'patting ourselves on the back' for owning such
a spectacular machine, and more development and products being made for it. if there
were a development library for the Amiga, I'd buy it. But there isn't,, and that's why I bought
the Microsoft Development kiln
Richard Langis Jr.,Hitlsboro, Oregon, USA
It's a sorry slate of affairs alright, and I'm surprised we haven't had more letters like
this one. I'm sure there are a lot of Amiga owners out there who are carefully thinking
about doing the same as you have done, but hold on just a second. Are you doing
things on your PC that you could just as easily be doing on your Amiga? There are an
awful lot of people who end up getting rid of their Ami gas, only to find out that they
could have saved the money they spent an a PC that will be obsolete in six month's
time.
r
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I**
EDESIGNING THE AMIGA
A lot has been said about what the Amiga
platform has accomplished and where it
may be heading. In my experience with a
number of platforms, 1 have found that
none is as reliable as the Amiga, As I have
told a number of my colleagues throughout
the years, the Amiga, il supported as other
platforms have been, could become a very
competitive computer again.
Take its operating system, for instance. As
simple as Amiga DOS is, it can still run effi-
ciently powerful programs and hardware
like the Video Toaster, Lightwave 3D,
Brilliance, Photogenics, Final Writer, Deluxe
Paint, etc Take into account that the Amiga
can run these and other programs with
minimal resources, with 4Mb of FastRAM
and, in some cases, without a hard drive,
and the speed in which many of its graph-
ics can be displayed on-screen. What other
consumer platform can display animations,
with various resolutions and colour depths,
in real-time? Platforms like ISM and Mac
cannot accomplish this without special
add-on display cards and fast processors,
One thing I would like to add is what a
number of editors have addressed as com-
petitive redesigns to the Amiga. Many peo-
ple have expressed how the Amiga should
lose its custom chipset and 1 know the
chipset does not allow IBM-like resolutions
(i.e. 1024x75a), but I am sure this can be
added in the near future. Small computers
like the A500, A60Q, and A 1200 cannot eas-
ily adapt themselves with 24-bit cards that
allow resolutions like these, but ! am sure a
redesigned ROM and chipset would be able
to. After all, has anyone asked or recom-
mended SCI to abandon its graphic co-
processors? Yes, both the Amiga and Silicon
Graphic workstations have graphic co-
processors and SCI's can display high reso-
lutions. Why can't the Amiga be designed to
accomplish this?
The last thing t would like to say is a
prediction that if Escom and Amiga
Technologies can take the Amiga seriously,
the Amiga can once again be a competitive
system in the industry. The Amiga is power-
ful out of the box. Think about it. Add a RISC
processor, on-board memory expansion to
128Mb of FastRAM, a more powerful
chipset with higher colour depths and reso-
lution, built-in 16-bit sound, with a refined
operating system, and you will have the
makings of a true Amiga workstation. In my
field of computer graphics, I think a RISC-
based Amiga workstation would have what
Keep your letters coming in
to Ezra Surf and you
could be a fifty pound,
I prize winner
Keep
those letters
coming! If you
can't be
bothered to find
a bit of paper and a stamp,
why not e-mail US? Simply
point your mailer to:
ESP@acomp. demon.ca.uk
There's a £50 pound prize for the
best fetter printed as an incentive
it takes to go up against any SCI, Sun, or
Dec computer system.
LeRay Parham, Jr., Clinton, Maryland, USA
If s a nice idea and I particularly like the
notion of telling SGI to lose its custom
chips. However as has been said before
in this column, custom chips take a lot of
money, time and expertise to develop -
all commodities which the Amiga
Development team is in short supply of.
The solution, at least in the short term, is
to take an off-the-shelf chipset and work
on software to drive it This way Amiga
Technologies can rely on the vast amount
of experience that people like Orchid,
SPEA, Diamond and others can bring to
its designs. It's all very well asking far a
new chipset but how long do you want to
wait for this new Amiga, and, more
importantly, how much do you want to
pay for it?
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 199&
□
EEPING BOTH SIDES HAPPY
As an avid Amiga user for ten years now it is
good to see the Amiga back! It is also sad to
know that it will die. Harsh but true words. The
Amiga has one major problem and it's trie
same problem it had in !9B5. Would you rec-
ommend to your friend that he or she buy an
Amiga? The answer should be "No* even il
you're a die hard Amiga addict
Let me telt you wtiy r if you don't already
know. Amiga users are the most computer lit-
erate in the world, but most people are not
computer literate at all, So how do they use a
computer that in their eyes has no support
and no popular software titles? Answer: ihey
don't
How do we then sell Amigas to the 99 per
cent of the world that has newer heard of an
Amiga? The answer is in giving the world what
it wants. They want support; offer free classes
wfth every computer sold and slep-by-step
help over the phone tor as long as they have
qjestions, all for just the price of the call to the
customer - the way IBM did in the '70s and
'fids. With this move, anyone that has never
bought a computer or can't use a computer
will think of the Amiga as their choice of com-
puter. That move- alone would get you 66 per
cent of America looking at Amigas.
"What about Doom, Quicken, AOL and MS
Word? tf | can't use this software I don't want
an Amiga." This is what you would hear from
most people when they look at the Amiga, and
the truth is this hurts the Amiga more then
anything. So again, give the world what rt
wants. Give them all the off-the-shelf software
in the world! By this ! mean that if the Amiga
is moving to the PowerPC chip and the PCI
bus, why not have the next Amiga with a
PowerMac: built into it? Something like shape
shifter, but rather a ready to go PowerMac right
out of the box. And if you're going to use the
PC] bus then why not have a second CPU slot
for an Intel chip, to make the Amiga an IBM PC
as well?
Think about it - no more chokes about
which computer to buy. You simply buy an
Amiga and get everything!!! The beauty of this
is that Amiga Technologies can put a bottom
crfthe line PowerPC and Intel 186 chip in the
machine and still have the best all-in-one box.
To get around the custom chips, simply don't
put them into the next Amiga, copy them as
software and move them into RAM when the
Amiga is running. The advantage is that you
save money on not having to buy the chips,
and native PowerAmiga software running on
the IBM standard display card will be so fast it
will scream. Compatibility with older Amiga
software should not be that great a concern,
because the future and power of the Amiga is
not in the old software but in the updates that
are PowerPC native. This would be good for the
Amiga user, great for Amiga Technologies, and
excellent for the Amiga software companies.
If Amiga Technologies can make this
machine for US St 000 to SI 6QO, I'd line up to
buy one. Also, if Amiga Technologies can make
a snipped down, low-cost model for US S5D0
to Si 000 it should then sell the computer at
cost to manufacture, allowing onfy SSO to Si 00
dollars profit to the retailer, Doing this would
then flood the market with a machine that had
the monopoly in the amount ol software it
could run - the real reason people buy com-
puters. The Amiga would then get into home*
it would never have a chance of being, in
before. The best part about it is that people
then could recommend the Amiga - computer
literate or not !
Please pass this letter on to all that use the
Amiga. This all-in-one idea is the best hope for
the Amiga because it's so easy for most people
to see that the Amiga Is the computer that runs
everything!
fldam & Keri Longowtjy, Topeka,
Kansas, USA
Hmm, We get these letters all the time
from our readers. "Why doesn't Amiga
Technologies bring out a machine that can
beat everything on the market and onfy cost
S30Q?" The answer should be obvious by
now. If such a machine was possible then
some other company, bigger than AT. would
have already done it If anything is to hap-
pen for (he Amiga to survive, it can't be off
the market for two or three years until AT
has come up with a nice chip design, or an
improved processor.
There needs to be something on the mar-
ket that is continually being updated and
pushes the OS forward (because the OS is
easily distributable, a lot more so than a
new chipset}. OS development is not cheap,
but it's a damn sight cheaper than chip
development and AT is a company without
large reserves of cash. The idea of putting all
three platforms into one machine is a good
one however, but the bottom line, as it
always does wfth these questions, comes
down to: "How much did you want to pay
for this machine exactly?"
B
NOTHER
PC BUYER
One of th» mor*
cororatufatiofia
nnnjigot w*
got for our tooth
A little over a year ago, Escom acquired
the Amiga, Mow VIScorp has it It is clear
that Escom couldn't do the job needed to
revitalise the ailing machine, but what
can VIScorp do? I can't say I've heard
much about this company, leaving doubt
as to what resources it is willing to invest
into our computer. With the PC market
full of Pentiums and Windows 95, can
even a PowerPC, one that is used in
PowerMacs, save the Amiga now?
Consumer confidence must be lower
than ever before and, let's face it,
not many firms are joining us rather
than leaving us. But there is yet another
problem in the equation - the price.
When I saw an Escom advertisement in
Amiga Computing offering a deal for
A500/A60O owners to buy a new A 1200,
I thought great a decent price, then I saw
the words 'Trade in'. Now, whilst kick
starting the Amiga must be pretty painful
to a bank balance, it cannot hope to sell
Amigas for £250+ when for the price of an
A4060 you could buy a pretty decent PC,
one that could be used for wording at
home and bring data into the office with.
With the price and position that the Amiga
is in, I don't blame an awful lot of people
selling their worthless' A&OQs and jump-
ing into the PC market, as a lot of my
friends have. And, it is with great
sadness that I too have to make this jump.
I cannot afford to miss out on what the
computer industry is doing - working on
PCs. Had Commodore made the right
decisions, I am sure there would be a
market for programmers to produce
Amiga software for businesses, but only a
handful of small businesses using the for-
mat, and with Universities using Macs
and PCs, I have no choice. Having looked
at the PC market's prices, I can now see
clearly what is wrong with the Amiga, and
it doesn't take a genius to do that. All I
can say now is good luck to the Amiga. I
am giving my old A600 to my sister for
games usage. I shall be buying a nice
l33Mhz Pentium multimedia myself very
soon!
(Oh, and well done for being what I
can see as the best Amiga mag on the
market, and happy one hundred!)
.fames Green, Ngrwkh, Norfolk
I guess you won't be needing our ser-
vices any more then James. I think
everyone is agreed on the fact that for
what it currently offers, the Amiga is
too expensive. However, if VIScorp
manages to put the Amiga chipset onto
one chip, and then sell its set-top boxes
for a couple of hundred dollars, it can
only mean a price drop for the Amiga
as a computer too. I think it's probably
best to hang onto your seats. The show
isn't over yet
Amiga Computing
AUGUST t996
Qhose games companies!
Hi guys! I'm an Amiga user from Mexico
and I love your magazine, but I'm not writ-
ing just to congratulate you. As a matter of
fact I'm writing because I'm seeing same-
thing terrible that 1 called the anti-Amiga
syndrome, and the gnes. who have this ill-
ness are the software companies. Let me
explain to you what I'm talking about:
Firstly, a group of guys want to be in the
software industry, (a good example could
be Tea ml 7, Bullfrog, etc. in their early
years.). Of course, it is difficult to develop
software for the PC, and for the consoles it
is practically impossible if you are a new
group. So what do they do? They develop
games for the Amiga, they create some
excellent software, and they even say that
they are real Amiga fans and they'll always
support the Amiga fTeamiT once again).
But what happens when these guys
become a great company! Firstly, they start
creating software for the PC, and then what
EJORE PC WOES
First of all, I'd like to thank you for a great magazine,
When Amiga World went under, I'd reached the point
that I didn't read it much anyway, but I find myself
reading your magazine almost cover-to-cover.
I bought my first Amiga (an A200GHD) in 1940 or
1961 during one of the few good marketing promo-
tions Commodore did - the heavy discounts for those
upgrading from another Commodore computer. Over
the course of the next year or so, I fitted it with more
and more RAM, an accelerator, a Brtdgeboard and a
host of PC peripherals, a display enhancer and a
murtifrecfueney monitor - it was quite a system fur
1992.
Then Commodore went under and it became more
and more difficult to justify the use of an orphan com-
puter. I kept the Amiga, but since I was making my liv-
ing at the time selling, repairing, and upgrading PCs, I
had to buy one.
Now rfs 1996, and my ageing A2000 has seen two
PCs come and go, followed by a third that may have a
little more tenure. Now I find myself doing very little on
those PCs that I couldn't do on an Amiga - and I'd
much rather do word processing, internet access, and
graphics work under the Amiga's OS than under any PC
operating system out there (IBM's OS/2 Warp is the
only PC operating system worthy of washing AmigaQS's
feet - DOS, Losedoze 95 and the like aren't even
worthy of running in the same room).
So I'd love to come back to the Amiga. Unfortunately,
that A2000 is showing its age - rfs best video modes
display only 16 colours, and only very slowly. My latest
PC, with its flashy Trident video card, will only very reluc-
tantly do 16 colours - ktfd much rather give me ! 6-bit
or 24-bit colour, and it does so quickly. Since 3 need that
kind of colour depth occasionally, the A20QD will either
have to be upgraded or replaced outright. I could outfit
it with an 0A0 or 060 accelerator and a Picasso video
board, but by the time I do that, I've spent more than I
would on a PC and I haven't done a thing about hard
disk space,
Ahematwery, I could get an A1200 and upgrade it,
and then I'd have a machine small enough to tote
anound and full AGA compatibility. But a bare A120Q -
happens! Well they usually say that the
Amiga is not a profitable computer and
they leave our platform!
Now, what am I trying to say? It's very
simple. Some software companies are
using us as a 'bridge' to start in the games
business, and when they are famous they
drop us like a piece of garbage! 1 don't
know about you, but I can't tolerate this
any longer - nave you seen the Team 17
2 megs of RAM and a 14MHz 020 and no hard drive -
costs S600 in the United States, That kind of money
would easily buy a similarly-outfitted (albert less useful)
75M Hi Pentium,
H Amiga Technologies really wants to be anything
but the poor man's alternative to an SO workstation
here in the States, "rt really has to move into this haH of
the decade. The A 1200, although a huge step up from
the A500 it replaced, was arguably on the brink of
obsolescence when it came out It seems most people
bought an accelerator at the same lime, but some kind
of upgraded AI20Q, with 4 or GMb of RAM, a 400-
5O0Mb hard drive, some kind ol 04u processor, and a
1 5- pin SVGA port to use commodity PC monitors, sell-
ing for about SfloO, might stand a chance in this mar-
ketplace - 'rf it's advertised, Simply using the existing
design, sans processor on the motherboard, and
putting the processor on an upgrade-style board so the
machine can be upgraded to an OBO by people like me
who think they need the extra horsepower would be
ideal.
I'd buy such a machine in a minute and send that
last PC packing. Unfortunately, I think there's a greater
probability of Charles and Di straightening things out
and undoing the damage done in the eyes of the pub-
lic than there is of mry dream machine materialising,
and that's not just my loss, I guess we Yankees are just
going to have to keep running around, thinking that the
only truly productivie platform out there is the 100MHz
Pentium with 16-24Mb of RAM that can run Losedoze
95 at a similar clip to that of an 030-equipped A1200
under AmigaOS-
Dove Farquhar, Columbia, Missouri, USA
it's such a shame that the Amiga's history has been
an rf only' story I think that if Commodore had
pushed ahead while it was making the huge
amounts of cash that they had from the A500, we
could have been competition for the Huge Mac mar-
ket that ts already out there. As rt is, we have to
put up with old-fashioned machines that run too
slowly with a shrinking software market Still, that's
life eh?
Web pages lately? Well if you look at uwm,
you will see in the Team Talk section that
Worms 2 will not be available for tk
Amiga. This is disgusting. A company
became a success on the Amiga is now
ing that it can't earn any money from us,
agree that piracy is bad, but the PC is
piracy-free, I also can't understand why,
is not earning money, has it survived
these years, why is it a great company nawi
The same happened with Bullfrog, and
Psygnosis (they don't create games for the
Amiga anymore because daddy' Sony say*
no, but Psygnosis was only famous because
of the Amiga),
Let's stop being the launch platform lor
all those companies that want to be m the
games world. Now is the time to show
what Amiga, users want, I'm not expecting
to get Psygnosis or Bullfrog back to the
ship, what I want is for the Amiga commu-
nity to show their disappointment in these
companies.
Lef s send some e-mails to Bullfrog, and
to Team 17 (maybe we will get Worms 1
after all). But must importantly, let's buy
original games. We must show them that
the Amiga is a great platform and this islfie
only way to shpw them. If I can buy original
games (remember that I live on the other
side of the ocean) then you can too.
Finally,, lef s tell all those new companies
that we are tired of this situation. If they
want to develop lor the Amiga they are
welcome, but don't use us as a bridge to
success on the PC. We deserve as much
respect as all the other platforms, and
maybe more, because the Amiga has sur-
vived tough times and we've never left our
beloved machine. We are looking to the
future, but we want to continue with com-
panies that love the 1 Amiga. Remember, just
say no to the anti-Amiga syndrome!
Aristides Castigiiani, Mexko
Well done A ri slides. You'll receive the
ESQ prize as soon as you give us your
address. Apparently, the reason so many
games come out on the PC as regularly as
they da is problem enough, and most PC
games actually shift less numbers than
Amiga games back in the Amiga's heyday,
which is a little surprising considering
the disparity in the respective sizes of
their markets. Not only can our readers
e mail and write to the games compa-
nies, they could also point out the results
of our reader survey - they're up on our
Web site at http://www.idg.co.uk/amiga
comp/. Just go to the Stuff page and
you'll find it easily.
Of course, on the other hand, Amiga
users shouldn't expect these games com-
panies to simply give up on their PC and
console development just because we
ask them to. They are making more
money in these markets than they did on
the Amiga, but that shouldn't stop them
from bringing out games on our platform
too.
Amiga Computing
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I'm hoping you can give me some
t advice on how to start program-
£ ming. I have been told that
EasyAM05 is the best way for me to
leam how to program the Amiga, but
I would just like to know if you think this is
the best way to start? In the long run I would
like to become s games programmer, so
what would the best steps be if I want to go
in this direction?
Jason Chapman, Bedford
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I In general, if you want to
f^{ become a programmer there
are three things you need to
have and do - practice,
patience and persistence. All are
very important. You have to practice writ-
ing code io you can learn and understand
how program instructions work, you will
have to be patient with yourself because
you will definitely not become a program-
mer overnight, and because of this you will
have to be persistent and not put off by
setbacks or tough problems.
As a Start, EasyAMGS, or even Amos
itself, is a good starting place. When you
start programming you are really just
learning about the basics of how programs
work, and once you have mastered these
basics you can apply this understanding to
any programming language. Most conven-
tional programming languages work on
the principal of sequence, selection and
repetition. Every program runs in a set
sequence, and during its execution certain
selections can be made and sequences can
be repeated.
Using Easy AMOS you will leam how the
commands that specify and control each of
these stages work, and how to use them,
and again this basic knowledge is transfer*
able to other programming languages.
If you are looking to make a career out
of programming then, obviously, you
should go through the normal
educational process - CCSEs, 'A'
levels and, finally, get yourself a
degree in computer science.
While you are generally learning
about computing in these courses
you can be happily programming
your Amiga - it may even be the case
you can incorporate what you are doing on
the Amiga in your course as some sort of
course work project.
You should also be aware that Easy AMOS
will only be a starting point Even though
you can do some impressive looking things
with Amos, it does not allow you to devel-
op the correct programming skills that are
required now- a -days. To da this you need to
get hold of a 'grown up' Language, and your
main choices are going to be either
Assembler Or f_ You may want to consider
Pascal but the other two are supported and
used much more.
Generally, it is taken that if you want to
write games on the Amiga you will have to
use Assembler to extract every ounce of
speed from the Amiga, However, as PCs and
the new generation of consoles increase in
speed, the need for this absolute speed
diminishes and many companies are adver-
tising for experienced C and C++ coders,
instead of just pure Assembler program-
mers. Also, if you undertake any course at
university most projects will normally
involve C and C++. This is due to the sheer
speed of PC processors and the fact that the
speed difference between code compiled
with C and Assembler for RISC processors is
a good deal less than on traditional CISC
processors. On top of this, if you are using
C and need a speed increase you can just
write the time critical parts of your code in
Assembler, and this approach speeds pro-
ject development and allows you to con-
centrate on tweaking the gam ep I ay,
Another advantage of using C is that it will
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make using the operating system easier
than if you had to use Assembler. This
brings in the old do you use the operating
system or hit the hardware debate. A few
years ago there was a clear divide between
Amiga programmers - either you were a
demo/game coder or wrote "serious' sys-
tem utilities. Came and demo coders need-
ed to get as much memory and speed out
of the machine as possible, and the only
realistic way of doing this was to get rid of
the operating system and code directly to
the Amiga's hardware. This then allowed
programmers to get a mating results from a
relatively slow machine. The downside to
this is that as soon as the Amiga's hard-
ware changes, even slightly, these sort of
programs can cease to work.
The alternative way to programming is
through the Amiga's operating system. Up
until recently, demo and game coders have
always rejected this approach, citing the
need to grab as much memory and to grab
every CPU cycle possible. These were sen-
sible arguments five or six years ago but
now with faster processors, faster and gen-
erally improved graphic operating system
functions, and a generally higher system
specification - on average our readers
have T,5Mb of RAM - these points lose
their credibility. These arguments are
borne out by the fact that many recent
games, such as Subwar 1050. Breathless
and Nemac IV, all run on Intuition screens
and multitask along with the rest of the
operating system.
You should also remember that the
consoles have their own operating
systems which are nowhere near as com-
plicated as the Amiga's, but experience
gained using the Amiga will greatly help in
any job you get Remember that anything
you write yourself can be shown to
potential employees, greatly increasing
your possibility of getting a start in
programming.
Amiga Computing
AUGUST J 995
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Qhe imagefx files
The problem with ImageFX
J that has beer troubling
^r Adrian Berna scone is
exactly what happened to
my machine when I deleted
ImageFX. A requester kept on ask-
ing me to insert ImageEK and it
was driving me mad.
After a good deal of searching
and routing through files, I eventu-
ally found the answer. It wasn't
anything to do with assigns, but
the fart that ImageFX altered the
AmigaGuide ENVARC settings.
Using DOpus, I found that in
ENVARC and also ENV there is a
directory for AmigaGuide and in
this directory is a file called path.
Reading the contents of path showed just the words ImageFX.
1 deleted the words in the path file, both in the ENVARC and EIW directories, saved it
as a blank file, and all went back to normal. I can't get this information direct to Adrian
because no address is published, so perhaps you can, I trust the information is of use to you
as well,
David Hikon, dovidh§.enterpri5S.net
Y^€ 'f anyone else is having the same problem you will need to open a shell and
I — type delete envarc;amigaguide/path and this will delete the troublesome file.
/-It seems that AmigaGuide will search for any paths that are listed in this file,
probably for Amiga Guides that have multiple parts, t should also thank
Dominique Dutoit who sent in the same solution to this problem.
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OING DOTTY
I have a printing question. Did you cringe?
j Various printer manufacturers claim their
[ printers will do 5ppm but in reality it is more
like five minutes per page, even on an A4000
with flJvleg! I use FW 5.0 with an HP- 540 at
300dpi, I need this sort of quality but faster. Is a Post
Script printer in order or an accelerator card? I want to
pump out a TOO pages an hour not per day. Help!
Sean, via the Interne?
I There are many different variables that
>A/ effect the speed of printing a docu-
jr ' ment including the software, printer,
/-f \ printer driver and the type of docu-
ment you are printing. You currently own
an HP Desk Jet, so realistically I cannot see you
managing to get the sort of throughput you
require. If you look at the HP specification you can
print one to two pages a minute on greystale
mode, or 1 colour page in four to seven minutes,
With a Desk let there are. however, a couple of
things that can help increase the page output.
Firstly, extra memory cartridges can be bought You
may have noticed that when printing a page, final
Writer will usually finish outputting to the printer
before the printer actually finishes. This happens
because the HP only has a 32k buffer which is only
enough data for a few centimetres of output. With
one of the memory upgrades you can load the
whole page to the HP and do multiple prints of that
single page. A possible alternative to buying a RAM
expansion for your printer is to use the CMD com-
mand which comes as standard with the Amiga
system disks. The CMD command allows you to
redirect the data that would be sent to the printer
to a file instead, so if you run this command and
then print with Final Writer you will generate a
spooled print Tile. Once this has finished, if you
open a shell and type copy <name of spool fife>
par: this will then allow your printer to print out as
fast as passible.
As you have an A4000 it should be fast enough
to keep up with the printer, and it may be the case
that your A4OO0 is hanging around for the HP to
keep up. If this is the so, you should consider a
print spooler. The other way of increasing through-
put is by using printer fonts. Normally, each time
Final Writer has to print a page it generates a JfJQ
dpi bitmap and sends this to the printer. If
Final Writer could use printer fonts then it would
send a description of the fonts to the printer
instead which would store this in the memory car-
tridge.
All Final Writer has to do then is tell the printer
to print an 'A', instead of having to generate the
bitmap itself. Even so, if you are printing lots of
graphics you are still going to be stuck with the HP
printing at around one to two pages a minute
which is probably not enough. This leaves you with
the option of getting a fast Postscript printer. If
have reservation about the claims of the printer
manufacturers, you are right and wrong. The five
page per minute printing speeds, claimed by the
manufacturers are for repeat prints, and this is a
similar situation to the HP.
If your Postscript printer has enough memory
you can download an entire page to the printer and
tell it to print x copies of (hat single page. This will
then be printed out at 5ppm or whatever the top
speed of that printer is. You can then send the next
page, which could take a little while, and then run
off another x copies of that.
V
Hello out there. This is the first
time I've tried this, so be gentle
with me. My question may seem
basic to many people, but I need
"^ to know if I can use different SCZlPs
for my A3000, I'm ready to get some more
and I'm trying to figure out the best solution.
I currently have 60ns SCZlP, but will I be
able to use 60ns and 70ns chips or will I
have to stkk with &Qns? With the current
price of SCZIPs here in Canada being so
expensive, is there any other realistic option?
Cordon, Canada
V-**/ The types of Zips that the
1 — ■ A3O0O will accept are either
r'*m \ s* 3 ^ column or page mode.
Static column is better and
allows the 03D to access burst mode for a
10 per cent increase in speed
You can either put in 256x4 bit or
1 Mx4-bit chips, but do not mix and match
them. With all banks populated you will
either have 4Mb FastRAM or 16Mb
FaslRAM respectively. If you currently
have 4Mb of FastRAM then the current
chips are 256*4 bit SCZIP chips. You
should be able to mi* the speed of the Zip
chips but they will only run as slow as the
slowest clock speed you have fitted. You
might as well go for the fastest dock
speed you can get because they will not
be that much more expensive.
Unfortunately, for you anyway, due to
the favouring of Simms in the computer
market the price of Zips has dropped far
slower than the price of Simms, and
recently, with the world supply of Simms
back up to speed, Simm prices have
dropped even more dramatically. As you
already have the full complement of
256x4-bit Zips on your A3000, it looks like
your only option is either get rid of them
all and change them for 1 Mx4 Zips or to
go for a Zorro I l/HI RAM card or accelera-
tor card. A new Zorro card is not going to
be cheap but if you go for one of the new
accelerator cards you will get a much
faster machine, more memory and usually
a fast SCSI-2 interface.
Do you have a problem? Do you some-
times find yourself poised over your
Amiga with axe in hand, spouting pro-
fanity al the stubborn refusal of your
software or hardware to behave in the
core ect manner?
Well, calm down and swap the axe
for pen and paper, jot down your prob-
lems, along with a description of your
Amiga setup, and send it off to Amiga
Computing Advice Service, IDG Media,
Media House, Adlinglon Park,
Macclesfield SKlo 4NP.
Alternatively you can e-mail us at
AC AS ' acomp.d e mo n . cd . u k
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
□
C CONNECTION
I have several questions to ask, The
•^ J first is related to my intended pur-
J chase of a laptop PC and the rest
have just: been collecting dust in
my mind lor some time.
1. I would like to know what options there
are to link my A 1200 to a laptop PC?
2. Is it possible for the Amiga to access an
Ethernet network through the PC by con-
necting the PC to the network, and connect-
ing the Amiga to the PC?
3. Can a second IDE hard drive be fitted
inside my Al 2007
4. Are there any other monitors other than
the Microvitec 1438 that will display ail the
Amiga's screen modes without flickering?
5. Are the SCSI connectors on Blizzard
Accelerator boards better than the Squirrel?
6. What use is an FPU apart from 3D
rendering?
7. Is there still a speed increase if the FPU is
slower than the processor?
Gavm Krnsey, mcaiSgk ! •Sstud.umistfK-uk
1, There are plenty of good
options around for connect-
i n g two Am igas together such
\ as Parnet and Sernet. but
when it comes to connecting to
a PC the problem you have is that you
need both networking software on the
Amiga side and the PC side. The most
straightforward way, and the least usable,
is to connect your PC and Amiga via a ser-
ial cable and use a terminal program such
as Term or NComm to transfer files
between the Amiga and the PC. If you only
want to transfer hies on an irregular basis,
such as once or twice a day. then this
would suffice.
On the other hand, if you want some-
thing a little better there is a program
An FPU will help
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Q600 HARD DRIVE
I own an A&00 with 2Mb ChipRAM and Kickstart 2,04, I recently purchased a second-
•*• J hand flOMb 2,5" hard drive to use with the machine, The drive worked fine in anoth-
1 er Amiga, but somehow my ASOO refuses to recognise it at all When I start up
HDTools, it does not show up when I go to the bootmenu. I tried to install another
hard drive some time ago, but that was a rather old 1.5" unit and I gave up on that
project pretty quickly. Is there a chance that I might have broken my IDE interface then, or
have I forgotten to do something?
Geir Sandstad, gein$@$lud.idb.hfctno
> </ Normally, if your Amiga does not recognise the IDE drive straight away then
— ( . , jr— ' there is a definite problem, it is possible that you have a very early version
/— f of the A600 shipped with a version of the operating system that did not
recognise the IDE interface, even though there is one on the motherboard, If
you have version 57.299 of Kickstart or earlier then your A600 will fall into this category.
You can find out your version of Kickstart either by loading workbench and selecting
about' from the Workbench menu, or you can type version' into a shell. One way around
this would be to get the Kickstart 3.1 upgrade which has replacement ROMs.
If this is not the problem then I would guess that the IDE interface is damaged in some
way. More unlikely is that the jumper settings on the hard drive are incorrect. It may be
set up as a slave IDE drive but even so, (would have thought the Amiga would still recog-
nise that it had a drive connected.
called EasyLink which gives you software
on both the Amiga and PC side and allows
you to access and transfer files on either |
machine using a GUI. As I have not been
able to try it out I cannot comment on
exactly how it works or how good it is, «
whether it will work with MS-DOS, Windows
3 or Windows 95. The best solution would
be if you could link the PC and Amiga using
an ethernet card. The only ethernet card foe
the A 1200 that I know of is the i Card, but
unfortunately they are in short supply and
are very expensive, especially when you
compare it to similar PC cards.
2, Whether you can access files over an eth-
ernet network via the PC using your Amiga
is down to how the EasyLink software and
the PC operating system interact If the roles
were reversed, with you accessing the eth-
ernet network over your Amiga, l could say
yes because it would just appear as anoth- ,
er disk on the Workbench, I assume the
same happens on the PC side of things and
if it does you should be able to access files
an the Amiga via your PC but without trying
I cannot, obviously, guarantee that it will
work.
3, As the Al 200 has a standard lOE interface
you can fit a second hard drive, but the
obvious problem is one of space. Where
were you planning to squeeze the drive in?
One solution would be to trail the IDE rib-
bon cable out of the side of your A12GO, but I
this is not the best of solutions.
The other possibility would be to remove
your internal disk drive and fit the second
hard drive in the remaining space. If you
have an external disk drive then use this as
a replacement for your lost internal drive.
Therefore, the answer to your question is
yes, but it is a bit of a performance.
A, I would like to say yes, any multisync will
do the job, but this is just not true.
5. Unfortunately, we have never had the
chance to test out the Blizzard SCSI mod-
ules - they seem to be in short supply - but
I think the throughput would be superior to
the classic Squirrel and, theoretica-
lly, better than the new Surf Squirrel.
However, in practice I doubt actual transfer
rates will be better than those you get out
of the Surf Squirrel.
6. Basically, an FPU drastically reduces the
amount of time needed to process floating
point and transcendental mathematical cal-
culations. On the whole these are larg-
ely used by 3D rendering programs, but
mandelbrot and other mathematical-based
programs can make use of
them and, of course, flashy benchmark pro-
grams.
7. Even having a slower clocked FPU than
the CPU will still give a large speed increase
because an FPU can calculate floating point
equations tens, or even hundreds of times
faster than the CPU. Having an FPU with a
faster clock than the CPU will give little
speed increase over an FPU with the same
CPU clock rate, however, due to the data
being given and taken from the FPU at the
same rate.
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the very best in the PD and
shareware world.
Also thoroughly worthy of art honourable
mention is an indispensable little utility
called Fast IPrefs, It's a replacement for the
standard IPrefs program called as part of a
Workbench boot-up which gets rid of vari-
ous IPrefs bugs when handling certain
workbench backdrop pictures. It also comes
with a new improved WB Pattern program
offering nice features like the option to cen-
tre a picture on the screen, or to lock colours
4-7 for Magic Workbench purposes. In short
it does a bit of technical trickery and leaves
you to get on with working on a nice, pretty
Workbench. It's available in the util/boot/
directory on Ami net.
Incidentally, rf you don't own a modem
and you're looking through Public Sector
thinking "Why are so many programs listed
as available on Aminet?" then don't despair
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usual PD library, and rf they don't happen to
stock it, several libraries offer an 'Aminet On
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MONOPOLY
Programmed by: Al Meti
Available from: Aminet
Cgame/board/amonopolyvlfl.lha)
Can I be the battleship? Pfo.-i.ir ?
Converting: a board game to a computer suc-
cessfully is not an easy task. Whilst the basic
mechanics of a game might seem rather sim-
ple, stop to think about all the complex situa-
tions which could arise in a game like
Monopoly and it's easy to see just how prob-
lematic a conversion could be. On top of all
that part of the charm of board games Is that
they're an opportunity to have a laugh with other people - playing against a computer is never
as satisfying, and if you've got friends handy why not simply play the board game"?
Anyway putting theoretical justifications to one side (or something), AMonopoly isn't bad. It has
a sort of painty-dicky interface although ygu will alio need to use the keyboard to answer the myr-
iad of Ires/No' questions the game will throw at you, The graphics are alright, the counters and
board spaces are all reasonably clear, and the sound effects are passable if nothing more.
Vou should also note that AMonopoly uses the properties from the American version of the
board game, so rf, like me r you're not familiar with them you could find things a little confusing
- especially since the property names aren't actually marked on the board, and some of the red-
dish property colours are a little hard to differentiate. Still, all things considered, AMonopoly is
a brave and relatively successful attempt at bringing Parker Bros' legendary game to the Amiga.
It's a shame you can't steal money when the banker's not looking though.
□
BACROSS
Programmed by: Per Thulin
Available from: Aminet
(game/think/abacro$s.Jfia)
If you're to succeed in beating the computer at
AbaCross you'll require a combination of strate-
gic thinking, numerical aptitude and luck. There
are elements of Connect Four and Scrabble in
this testing pun1e game.
The objective is to be the first to make a line
of three counters in your colour However, you
can't place a counter just anywhere on the
board. Each square is marked with a number,
and you can only place a counter on that
square if you can use your six counters to get
from the currently selected number to the
number on your target square. The counters are
marked either with a number from to 9 or
with a mathematical operation (add, subtract
multiply or divide). For instance, if the flashing
square was marked 42, and your target square
was 7, you could divide by 3 r or subtract 35. If
you can't go, you can return one of your
counters and receive another.
it's possible to change the colour of a square
on the board from your opponent's colour to
your own by simply getting to that number
again. However, you can protect squares that
are already yours by getting to that number
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numerical fretici
with AbaCross
again, whereupon the counter will flip com-
pletely around and the number on the square
will vanish. Did you follow all that?
Whilst it all sounds a little bizarre, it makes
for an engaging and challenging experience.
If your mathematical abilities are a little rusty
then this is a fine way to polish them up
again.
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
lYPiT
of the month
BattleDuel
Programmed by: Jochen Tersliege
Available from: Am met
(as game/2play/batlJeduel.lha)
Ably assisted by graphical chum Michael David and
musical mate Marco Seine, enterprising
Deutschlander Jochen Terstiege has produced
a marvellously addictive game in the same
vein as that bovine bornb-fest, Cow Wars,
Beautifully presented and Featuring
scores of options, BattleDuel is a multi-
player classic which deserves Installa-
tion on games partitions everywhere.
lor those unfamiliar with sucti sophis
ticated, complex and mentally demanding
games, the object is 10 blow the opposition
into oblivion by firing missiles at them. There are
two factors which control the path your missile takes
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when launched, namely Barrel (angle of launch) and
Powder (the force with which the missile is fired). You
can also move your launcher backwards and forwards
slightly. Hits on the opponent do differing degrees of
damage depending on exactly where the missile
strikes, and the first person to inflict 100 per cent
damage on the opposition wins.
BattleDuel boasts some attractive graphics, and
with a few backdrops to choose from and the option
to enable or disable certain graphical features, you
can customise the appearance of the game to some
extent The music isn't bad either and there are some
reaHy atmospheric sound effects, ranging from bird
song during the quieter moments to the obligatory
'explosions and even broken glass for shots which go
too far astray.
Another string in BatfJeDuel's already
powerful bow is the option to play against
people aver a network ft s possible to
duel via a null modem connection, a
proper modem connection, or through
a TCP/IP connection over the Internet
Since the game murtrtasks perfectly it's
nice to have a game of BattleDuel run-
ning whilst you're downloading some
files from Aminet, or even during duller
moments on the IRC channels.
In a Mary Poppins-esque fashion, BattleDuel is
Programmed by: John Houseley
Available from: Fl Licenceware
Disk No: FM .SB (2 disks)
Wouldn't it be nice if that ever-popular pro-
gramming language Amos could actually do
things with Workbench properly -
Multitasking, Intuition Interfaces, proper
ACA screen modes, that kind of thing.
Decent menus, attractive GUIs. And all in a
proper extension, rather than a set of 'simu-
late it in the nasty Amos envingnrpent' pro-
cedures. Admittedly, there is the Intuition
extension, but It's not perfect. If a do-it-all
windows extension for Amos existed, it
would be a Godsend,
Well perhaps, just perhaps, Cod's second
name is Houseley, and his angelic distribu-
tion network is based in Exeter, (That would
probably make Fl Licenceware bloke Steve
Bye the angel Gabriel, Well, whatever)
To use J-Windows you'll need AMOS Pro,
Once you've got everything installed you
will be able to produce sophisticated, good
looking programs in a fraction of the time it
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hotkey support and so on. They could have
proper Intuition gadgets, Your programs will
run at Workbench speed, and will look to all
intents and purposes like they were written
in a far more complex, and time consuming
language,
The nasty Amos file handling system, pos-
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times, runs up to 20 times faster. There are
also plenty of Amos bug fixes which will
make using the language infinitely more
pleasant
Getting to grips with all the new
practical^ perfect in every way. Admittedly, it can't pro-
duce hatstands from carpet bags or leap into cartoon
landscapes in a pavement drawing, but there's just as
much entertainment here and you are thankfully
spared Dick Van Dyke's rather pitiful cockney accent.
Up to tour players can participate in BattleDuel'*
tournament mode, but since this is deactivated in
this unregistered version (you can only have two
payers here), there's even more incentive to regis-
ter with the authors. For a tenner you'll be getting a
complete version of one of the best muhi player
games in years.
BattlmOvoHing msninmt an opponent
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commands shouldn't be too tricky either
because there's a massive AmigaGuide
manual included, and scores of well
explained demonstration programs {which
actually do useful things).
J-Windows is easily the single most
important Amos extension in existence and
for only a fiver it represents superb value for
money. Only a foolish Amos programmer
would even attempt to live without it.
The day we
cauc
I want
program, whatever its purpose, which
you consider worthy of review. Whether
it will be freely distributable public
domain, shareware of licenceware, if
you feel its of sufficient quality to merit
coverage then stick it in a jiffy bag or
padded envelope and send it in with all
haste. Although Public Sector receives
too many submissions to cover them all,
I promise I'll at least look at your work -
even if its yet another Lottery program
or Klondike cards el. It does make my job
a lot easier though, if disks are clearly
labelled. Please also include a cover tet-
ter detailing the dfsk contents and price,
and giving some bisk instructions. The
magic address i"
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AUGUST 1996
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CREECH
Produced by; Insane Software
Available from; 17 Bit Software
Dish No: 4044
In my book It's hard to beat a decent driving
game in the Super Sprint mould. There has
been a steady stream of shareware racers
over the last few years (including
MooseDrive, which 1 must accept partial
responsibility for), and this Blitz Basic effort
is amongst the best so far.
This is a three track version, with the third
only being included as a computer-driven
demonstration, but the first two are fully
operational- There are ten cars in total, of
which one or two can be player-controlled
whilst the rest are driven by the computer.
Screech is extremely well presented and
features some excellent graphics. The tracks
themselves look lovely, although as the race
wears on and the cars leave rubber and so
on all over the place, they do deteriorate
somewhat. The multicoloured race cars are
well drawn too, and it's clear much time
and effort has been lavished on making
Screech look the part It plays extremely
well too, with the cars being generally
responsive and nippy, l:l could just be me,
but the handling seems to change during
the race too. Other nice touches include
beasties running onto the track, which you
may well wish to acquaint with your front
tyres.
For those witling to register, US SI 2 Of 1 5
Aussie ones will get you at least four more
tracks and a host of extra features Also
planned for the future are (deep breath): pit
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CPC
Programmed by: Stephane Tavenard
Available from: Roberta Smith DTP
In a moment of extreme boredom recently, a friend
of mine dug Out his old Amstiad CPC464 and a large
cardboard box full of games cassettes, many of
which had retailed at the wonderfully generous price
tag of £2,99- It was a calculated, evil move on Pete's
behalf which meant that for hours on end in the fol-
lowing few days Arkanoid once more held a small
but significant proportion of the populace in its sway.
Yes, we sifted through that cardboard box and sys-
tematically relived those halcyon 8-bit days, enduring
the trauma of a ten-minute wait for a multibad epic
(the console kids of today have no patience!), only to
wince at the painfully poor animation and bleepy
sound effects. At the end. of the day, though, it was
always ATkanoid that found its waiy back into that
horrific plastic datacorder.
I was never an Amstrad owner myself, having
been introduced to the computing world by that
technological wonder the Acorn Electron, but I
spent many a happy hour in the good old carefree
days of childhood bouncing a ball off a wall and
shooting coloured bricks with a laser. Such was life.
Imagine my glee, therefore, when what should I
find generously squeezed onto the Emu CPC disk
but a collection of games amongst which lurked
Arkanoid, "Aha!" thought I, and without further ado
I hastened to the garish Amstrad intro screen and
proceeded to run that very program.
Running Arkanoid on the Amiga proved to be an
interesting experience. 1 had expected my humble
fast- rammed A1200 to run appreciably slower than
an antique Amstrad, because emulation always is a
rather pedestrian experience. But it takes incredible
adeptness to keep a ball in play for more than a cou-
ple of seconds when, as the Speed program soon
pointed out to me, you're running at 35 per cent of
Amstrad speed.
So the moral in this little story is. . , either have a
spankingly fast Amiga on which to emulate a dated
machine, or dig around in the loft (or that of a friend,
but don't forget to ask his or her permission first
because unfamiliar lofts can be scary places), until
you uncover the little beauty itself. Still, Emu CPC is
a nicely written emulator which, if your Amiga is up
to ft, runs CPC disk software flawlessly, tt can load
programs in snapshot formats or in big disk files, fear
hires lots of handy options, and comes with a handy
Amstrad disk image converter written by John Cirvin.
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sto ps, car damage and fires, more race track
invaders, a team management option, a
modem connection mode, emergency ser-
vice vehicles, and an AGA-only three player
split screen mode. If all these are added to
an already impressive title, Screech looks
set to become the definitive shareware
racer
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M1TOOLBAR
Programmed by: Daniel Balster
Available from; Aminet
(util/wb/am itoolbar.l ha)
AmiToolbar is an attractive MUI program
launcher which sits happily at the bottom of
your Workbench screen, looking pretty and
being generally helpful, It is not to be con-
fused with ordinary vanilla Toolbar which was
reviewed a couple of issues ago, and which
the mint-choc -chip AmiToolbar is, in my
humble opinion, vastly superior to.
AmiToolbar features rows of nice little hut-
tons which can, of course, be configured so
that they launch whichever programs you
desire. Configuration is achieved by editing a
textfile called amitoolbar.prefs which sits in
the 5: drawer. An example prefs file is inclu-
ded, but editing it to suit your own needs is
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it's so lovely" appearance, something that the
age-old Toolmanager doesn't have, as well as
some nice memory usage graphs and a little
command line window. On the other hand,
Toolmanager lets you place frttle icons all
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Toolmanager also lets you add items to the
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like assigning sound effects to certain
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At the end of the day, AmiToolbar is a
splendid program well worth checking out.
Whether or not Toolmanager users will
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quickies
VOL #1
Produced by: Anthony Whitaker
Available from: Roberta Smith DTP
After starring in several feature-length
animated adventures, Charley Cat makes
his debut in a new series of computerised
cartoons designed to run on standard
2Mb A120Os. If you own such a machine
you may not have met Charley before,
because in the past superb productions
like Cowboy Cats (the twelfth Charley Cat
adventure, reviewed in AC95). have
required beauco jp de memory-
Charley Cat is a character invented by
Mr Whilaker, and is most definitely not to
be confused with the similarly named
(although, I believe, differently spelt)
feline who used to star in those irritating
hut informative 'Don't go with strangers'
adverts of old, and featured on a particu-
larly cheesy dance tune a couple of years
ago.
Although this Bungee Jump-themed
flick boasts the same highly impressive
artwork and sound effects as its bigger
brothers, it is much shorter (coming on
only one disk as opposed to six). Cone are
the disk-swapping blues that were the
only drawback of the earlier epics. The
end result is a humorous and enjoyable
minute or so of entertainment. We eager-
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Ohe date: 17 February 1996" the
time: 20:39 GMT. At Cape
Canaveral's Complex 17, the count-
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craft called NEAR, destined for an encounter
with the asteroid Eros. Blockhouse engineers
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boosters will ignite, generating over 640,000
pounds of force, and lifting the 1 25 foot vehicle
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sound show.
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ing more than a thousand measurements from
the bird. They include people from NASA,
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facturer), Johns Hopkins University (the space-
craft builder), and every contractor who has
components on the Delta. No direct control
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blockhouse - are essential to the operation.
Eighty-su, 8-diannel strip chart recorders,
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within the building. The data is also being sent
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number of management personnel sit in the
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municate with the pad and every worldwide
site involved in the operation. During the
launch displays will show them the occurrence
and time of each important event, and all of
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computers in the back of AE - a set of Amigas.
Wart a minute! Amigas? Not IBM or
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million spacecraft, give or take, not counting
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The Delta, first launched in 1960, consisted
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based on technology developed for the
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con
Douglas Aircraft and others, and program man-
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that was used to prepare the Mercury missions.
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that NASA engineers used to monitor Delta pad
tests and launches.
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about things that are going right or wrong with a
very expensive craft that may be thousands of
miles away. Without accurate analysis of errant
flight events, engineers would be powerless to fix
the problem for the next flrghl Project managers
who decided lo save money by cutting back on
telemetry coverage have often regretted it
The general rule is to try to have coverage
(radio reception) during all critical events,
which indude powered flight phases, stage
separations, and reorientations. This is why the
Air Force and NASA have long maintained a
sting of telemetry and radar stations along the
typical flight path to the southeast of the Cape,
and ships and planes that could fill in any
critical gaps. But many ol the potential flight
problems can be uncovered in the month or so
during which a launch vehicle is erected on the
pad and is run through many tests and simula-
tion* NASA took the approach that having its
own engineers both at the pad watching
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spacecraft embarks on a journey inal
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gave an extra mea-
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well worth the cost
Gy 1961, the Branch
moved next door to
Hangar AE where there was
more room, badly needed for a
larger telemetry station and antenna towers.
The eady Delta had about 130 measurement
channels, and these were displayed mainly on
strip chart recorders, which engineers Stood
over in rapt attention during major tests.
Computers were not essential at that time far
telemetry display, but then we got more work.
NASA Headquarters decided to move man-
agement of the new Atlas-Centaur launch
vehicle from Marshall Space Flight Center and
its Field organisation, overburdened with
work on the Saturn manned boosters.
Lewis Research Center became the new
managers; we. by this time known as
Goddard Launch Operations, were handed
launch responsibilities. This vehicle had a
standard Atlas first stage, but its Centaur
second stage had something new: the first
liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine system,
whkh offered a big gain in performance.
Much that was learned in developing and
flying the Centaur stage was valuable to
the Saturn and Shuttle programs. The
Centaur's complex nature required about 5 DO
telemetered measurement channels.
Measuring up
We decided in the late 1960s to buy a
Raytheon 701 minicomputer for Hangar AE to
help process all these measurements. This
machine had 64Kb of core memory, and no
disk drive. It was programmed in assembly
language, and data was entered on paper
tape or punch cards. But the volume and com-
plexity of the Centaur telemetry, with its PCM
(pules code modulation) links and hundreds
of 'discrete' (on/off) channels and, likewise,
upgrades to the Delta telemetry, made it
necessary to replace the 703 in the mid-1970s
with a pair of Raytheon RDS-SOOs. They had a
total of 256Kb RAM, and sported 10Mb disk
drives the siie of small washing machines. For
a single vehicle, one machine had to process
data, while the other generated displays.
Even so, not all the
data could be
handled, includ-
ing Centaur's
guidance data.
With two pads for
each of the two
birds, and multiple
simultaneous operations
getting to be more frequent
the minis required constant switch-
ing and hard drive cartridge changing.
In the '80s, the Space Shuttle entered
service. NASA planned to taper off and end
the Delta program. Future plans called for
satellite launches to be done, often in pairs,
by the Shuttle. And there was a program
called Shuttle Centaur for launching large
Going back for more history, improvements to the
1000 sr'sfems came steadily. Although Byle-by-Byte
stopped making the PAL box, t found an engineer
who had worked on the disk controller. He
had finally gat the SCSI section working, so we got
him to sell us kits to upgrade our cards. We
were then free to use mare, larger, and faster
storage drives.
Before bag, I wanted a replacement for these
cards, which wouldn't rua some devices- I discov-
ered that I could cut a CVP Series J^CSi card in half
and it would fit inside the PAL box, so we did that
Then we could use Bernoulli 44Mb drives whkh
helped us preserve and transport software easily.
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our tape deck had an ISA bus SCSI controller, so we
ran it from a bridgeboard iaside a 2000. By T9SJ,
we were moving along with plans to replace the
JOQQ/PAL Box syalems with Amiga 2500s. This
required Charlie to re-do our DMA input and output
cords which was not so easy because the original
square card was already crowded, and the Zorro It
card had less real estate available. Since the A265Q
68030-25 accelerator cards would only take 4Mb of
SAM, we soon added DKB's 2632 cards to them,
allowing up to 1 12Mb worth of SIMMs.
Then I found a new product at a show, called (no
kidding!) the CSA docket launcher - it was a
CPV/fPU speed doubter for the A2&3Q, ft gave a big
performance boost, so we soon had one installed in
events display
deep-
space
probes - more risky
and complex by nature than anything before.
It required taking a Special Centaur (cryo-
genic-! jelled, remember) Stage into orbit in
the Shuttle's cargo bay for on-orbit release
and launch.
A Honeywell DPS-B mainframe computer
costing millions of dollars was bought for a
new facility to support Shuttle-Centaur and
other Centaur operations, AE was too small
for this monster, which filled a large room
and had about 30 people devoted to its care
and feeding, AE had other problems. By
1984, Raytheon was telling customers that
the 500 was obsolete, and support for its
assembly language (in which all our real-
time software was written), and hardware
was soon going to end. Unmanned Launch
Operations, as we were called after our
transfer into Kennedy Space Center, had
an uncertain future, and an overloaded,
obsolete computer system.
19B6 brought the tragedy of the
Challenger accident. In its aftermath many
decisions were made that affected the
unmanned programs. One was that
Shuttle use for commercial launc-
hes would be minimised; Only
launches that required
manned presence, had
national priority Or
required the Shuttle's
lift capability would
continue. The Air Force
also decided that it would
not put any more of its space-
craft on the Shuttle unless necessary,
because it did not have enough control to
prevent delays to military project schedules.
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performance) booster stages would be
launched from the Shuttle. So the Delta pro-
gram would continue to be needed after all.
NASA's participation in the new facility was
cancelled, and the Honeywell DPS-8 became
a computer in search of a home. It was too
large and expensive for AE's purposes - we
needed smaller, reasonably priced comput-
ers. But what would we choose?
Some of us at AE had experience with
Motorola 6809 and 6S0O0 processors. Dave
Brown, the programmer then in charge of
the Raytheon s, had done some projects
using the VME bus/68000 series cards, I did
several 6809 -based projects in assembly
language. We liked the straightforward pro-
gramming model the 680OO presented, with
its linear memory addressing as opposed to
the convoluted segmentation scheme used
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
each of them. We then had a s ystem running at 3,S
times the speed of the original 1000 systems, and
with no practical RAM limitations.
Conscious that PCM data rotes would be increas-
ing, we wanted to use the Amiga 4000 as out third-
generation machine. We thought we would be able
to buy 40QQTs in early 13S4, but instead,
Commodore went bust As I was retiring in May '94,
the new plan was to buy 4000 desktop machines, put
the motherboards in Micronik tower cases, and put
40MHz 040 Warp Engines in them.
NASA was abie to get about half the 4000s need-
ed, but had been waiting for five units from a local
dealer for many months. That November, I went to
the Computer 94 show in Cologne, hoping for a
iiil
miracle, A Cemton friend made some calls for
me white I was there, and we Found a dozen
4000s in a store ISOKm. away. Problem
solved
The pictures show these tower-cased
machines. They may not took like
Amigas but they are working very well,
thank you. Charlie Michael recently
designed new dual-ported RAM I/O cards
that side-stepped delays due to the DMA
process in the original design. Now the system
hard drives are gigabyte capacity, and the
Bernoulli's,! 50Mb size, DAT tape is used for back-
ups, and CD-ROM read/write drives provide more
permanent storage.
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by tile Intel processor. But in 1985, there
were no complete, low-cost computers
based on the 68000; there were only mini-
computers costing 530-50 thousand (1996)
that were too expensive for our needs,
Are you surprised that cost would be an
important factor in doing a NASA job? Fact is,
there has always been more pressure on the
unmanned space projects to keep costs low.
Supplying all parties concerned with the best
telemetry and communication; possible is
valuable insurance against unnoticed prob-
lems and consequent failures, and that has
always been Hangar AE's major service. But
like all insurance, its benefits are measured
by the customers [the management of com-
panies involved* in a launch project) against
the cost (of operating M, partly paid by
them). Skip Mackey, who very ably ran the
Hangar AE facilities for 36 years, was vigilant
in ensuring that we operated efficiently and
cheaply, and with the flexibility to provide
new services, often needed at the last
minute. Replacing the Raytheon* was going
"The job: pretty much
same as 36 years ago; i
complex, and tots more red
tape...., but the Amigas
have done everything
needed, and have made it
more fun"
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not go for it
Dave Brown, myself and others were
reading about the new 68000-based Atari ST
during 19885, but decided it was too limited
for AE's purposes. Then we heard about the
Amiga 1000. A nearby store started to carry
them in late '85, so I went by to get a demon-
stration. I had the same reaction that many
of us may remember amazement Here was a
Q Drive Brawn
(right) and Gary
Jum::. •( thr
IIMCllJnri they
use to generate
and debug C code
tor Hangar AE'a
Amrg.i 'ly-.trm*
relatively
'ow-cost com-
puter that did things
no other small computer
could I After a while, 1 brought one
home, and then took it AE for show and
tell. Dave Brown was also impressed, and got
one for himself. The Amiga fix was in.
Cost was not a problem in replacing our
minis with Amigas, but some other things
were. A well-made peripherals box was
needed that would accept accessory cards
and hard drives. It would have to include a
hard disk controller card, and additional
slots for DMA data input and output cards
of our own design. We looked at designs
by MicroForge (huge and slow), CSA and
AS DC (just card frames) without much
enthusiasm. ,
Then a Texas company called Byte-by-Byte
announced its PAL IOQ0 bo*. H offered every-
thing we wanted: ifive Zorro I slots, three hard
drive slots, an extra megabyte of HAM and a
dock It was well buffered and powered, and
sat conveniently on top of the 1000. Most
importantly, it came with a disk controller,
developed jointly with Commodore - this
was the forerunner of the CBM 2090 A
At the time, Commodore hadn't gotten the
SCSI part of the card to work, so PAL boxes
came with 42Mb ST-506 drives. We bought
the first PAL box produced, and ten more
later, This item made it possible for us to use
the Amiga. It gave us the samp and more
capability that the 2000 would have later,
but by the time the 2000 came out we
would have gone another way. Mote: the PAL
box design was done by Brad Carvey of
Video Toaster design fame, and comedian
Dana Carvey's brother.
Another problem was that we needed
floating-point processing, and a faster CPU
than the 68000, even with the load spirt
between the three operational Amigas. VUe
found a 68020 card, the Ronin Hurricane, that
had a doubled clock speed, a true floating
point co-processor, and space for 4Mb of 32 -bit
RAM. This, with our custom cards, completed
the setup for our first operational systems
While the RDS-703 and RDS-500 software
had all been done in assembly language, the
decision was made that all Amiga coding
would be in C language. This allowed maxi-
mum ease for the constant upgrades and
additions that would be needed, and good
portability, in case another machine change
became necessary. Although not as fast as
machine language, C certainly was better
than high level languages. Care was taken to
ensure that multitasking was preserved and
that the same software would run
on all Amigas for all missions.
We started with the Manx
Aztec compiler, switching
to SAS/C when it became
necessary. We named
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
our triple Amiga
system CARDS" -
| Computer-Aided
Recording and
Display System, li-
the measure merits
on one Delta or
Centaur, but to deal
with two or more tests on
different pads at the same time.
The programmers can shift the assignments
of data handling between Amigas in real
time without shutdowns. Usually, there is
one Amiga on each vehicle during its
prelaunch tests, but the system is completely
flexible. On a Delta launch day, the telemetry
from that vehicle will probably be divided
between the three primary Amigas, with
three more as backups. Rut if Centaur wants
to run tests also, it can simply be added to
one of the machines.
System setup
The bask system consists of the following
elements: data is received by RF links dire-
ctly from the missile, and also from landlines
from the blockhouse; other telemetry sites
may also be sources, always the case on
launch day. The PCM (Pulse Code Modulation,
now mostly used in preference to the older
pulse amplitude, pulse duration and FM/FM)
data is processed by a decom mutator on each
link. The digital data from all such sources is
placed together on the telemetry lab's, link
multiplexer, a bus that runs at 7
megabits/sec. Each channel (measurement)
value includes a tag that identifies it and its
source. At the Amigas, the input cards
contain dual- ported RANI where all the link
mux data is stared, and the system software
can then access the data which is needed,
placing it in a large table in memory. This
table, identical in all of the Amigas, is updat-
ed with every sample of every measurement
as each new KM frame arrives at the input
card.
The computer does various operations on
the data in the table, including scaling the
data from to 1 00 per cent converting to
engineering units, or any special function.
Translating a measurement to engineering
units for video display or printout in numer-
ical form is not usually a linear conversion. It
involves fitting the value to a curve, and six
coefficients a re sup plied by the vehicle ma n-
ufacturer for each measurement channel.
The curve and coefficients would vary with
each transducer on board, for example, on
that measures oxidise r tank pressure on th
first stage, if that transducer fails and is
replaced, we have to get the new coeffi-
cients, and again, they can be entered while
the main program is running. A fifth-degree
polynomial calculation by the Amiga, using
those coefficients, provides an engineering
value, which would probably be in pounds
pressure in this case.
Another operation the computers do is to
d ecommutate certa i n data that is i ncl uded in
a PCM link, hut running asychronously at a
frame rate different from the link's main
frame rate. The new Delta II AUV (Avionics
The present AE Amiga* have enough power for a Amigas pretty hard.
fear more years, but telemetry systems speeds are The computer team is looking at the 68060
„w, The first Delta PCM sys-
tems ran at 11.89Kb but the new AUV systems run
at 367 and 500Kb. Titan, which is occasionally used
by MASA, is op to BQOKb. The Cassini mission to
Saturn, with support beginning in tote: 1997, will
use a Titan booster, and this project may push the
Engines, but the potential of those cord's will be
somewhat limited until an optimised 060 compiler
is available. Storm C includes 060 switches end
looks good in demo form, but the working version
is not available with English documents as of the
time of writing.
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Upgrade Vehiclephas its guidance data
embedded this way. The real-time processing
is interrupt-d riven, but the pre-emptiv multi-
tasking is what makes it possible to do so
many things while the program is running,
such as changing sources, displays, channel
assignments, scales, coefficients, and adding
or removing additional tasks.
The output of all this activity? Each of the
three Amigas feeds a video generator bank
which can output 32 out of about 1000 pos-
sible video pages (for 'discretes', another
2000 possible pages). These pages use a
large font preferred by the users, which
allows IS lines per screen. Most of the 96
video outputs are fed to manitnr/callbox sets
installed id consoles throughout the building.
Next to each monitor, the call box has a
numerical keypad and LED display. CARDS
also drives large sets of DACs ( Digital -
to -Ana log Converters), which in turn can drive
about 700 strip chart channels, Engineers
need these as a continuous record of a
launch or test so they can see measurement
levels and when various events took place
For instance, if you were an engineer con-
cerned with first stage tanking, you would
have requested your tank pressure, tempera-
ture and level measurement pages before-
hand. You could switch among those and any
other pages of measurements from the vehi-
cle with the keypad, the LEOs showing you
which page is selected. The Amiga CARDS
program allows you to key in additional mea-
surements to one of your pages, or make a
new page, You could also enter a request for
a line printer printout of your data, step to the
printer, and it would be waiting. And you
would have your more important measure-
ments being recorded continuously on nearby
strip chart recorders, so you could check the
recent history of your measu rements.
Separate Amigas are used in the telemetry
lab for other purposes. Some 1000s are used
* <****■
to control the DACs referred to above; other;
are used to program the decom mutators iru:
process the PCM data. Another Amiga runs the
timing system display in the Mission Directoi
Center. This rather elaborate system wa&
originally run by a PC with some very expen-
sive C code done under contract but the entire
siftware was rewritten for the Amiga by Eric
Anderson in a few week's work, and sintt
then the timing system has been tailored to do
the job better.
Similar support
A smaller, but almost identical system was
also installed at the Western Test Range
(Vandenberg AFB, California), to support NASA
Delta and Scout launches, which have been
much less frequent Some ut our customers
wanted to hove a system located at their facil-
ity that would function like CARDS, driven by
data from the Cape or WTR. Dave Brown
developed a system where a single-Amiga
CARDS could be remotely placed, and driven ^_
by data typically transmitted across S&Kb , -*
circuits, The remotes operate on a two-second — *>
delay, but receive all measurements correctly f
time-tagged, and the engineers at the remote ^A
site have the same ability to display,
customise and print out all their data pages,
All software maintenance can be done at
the transmitting end, including swapping the
real-time executing software, rebooting, and
verifying proper function. The remotes run the
same software as the primary Amigas, with
conditionals set to optimise them for their
more limited job. Remotes are in operation
at Lewis Research Center, Aerospace Corp-
oration, and several facilities an the Canaveral
Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.
Not limiting ourselves to launch vehicle
support. Hangar AE has been able to provide
data for spacecraft checkout and other spe-
cial projects on a number of occasions.
These include the GOES spacecraft, the GPS
navigational series satellites, the ACTS
spacecraft, the TOS third stage, and the
Pegasus booster series, which are air-
dropped from a modified L-1011 aircraft
Another extra has been supporting CAS
(Customer Ancilliary Service) slow-speed
data from the mid-deck experiments carried
by the Shuttle; this data runs for long
periods during flight
The author, Hai Greenlee, would like to
express appreciation to Dave Brown for
assistance with technical information and
reviewing the article, and to Floyd Ctirington
for historical assistance. Opinions expressed
are his own.
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AUGUST 1996
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I was not too surprised at this because if
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The thing that did surprise me was the
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gling with floppy disks, or is think about
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the perfect time to buy one.
Thanks to the requirements of Windows
95 and general PC software, it pushes up
the demands of the average user wanting to
get decent performance out of their com-
puter. Currently, the average PC user would
need 16Mb RAM and a 2Gb hard drive to
have a system that is comfortable to use,
but your average Amiga user will get by
quite happily with less than half that
amount of RAM and hard drive space.
Eyetech has jumped upon
the demand for higher
capacity hard drivesand
increased amounts of RAM
and put together a one-stop
solution for A 1200 owners
Price drop
This demand by PC owners for higher
capacity hard drives and increased amounts
of RAM has recently driven prices down.
This means you can pick up a 1Gb hard
drive for the same price that a 520Mb drive
woutd have cost last year. Eyetech has
jumped upon this and put together a one-
stop solution for A 1200 owners wanting a
low-cost but high capacity hard drive. In
about 15 minutes you can be the proud
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As standard, the hard drive is set up with four parti-
tions as opposed to the normal two- 1 think this is a lit-
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repartitianittg the last three because they are alt
empty apart from one that has a demo of MME
experience,
Eyetech has also programmed the hard drive with
TootsDeamm running so all the extra programs avail-
able are accessible horn the normal Workbench menu
on bootup, which mokes things easy enough. I would
have preferred to have seen a few more of the stan-
dard public domain Workbench patches that everyone
seems to. use, such os MagicMenu, Cycte2Mertu and
something like Yak or MCX. Another slight niggle is
that although there are extra Datatypes on the hard
drive, they are hidden away in the storage drawers
where a beginner could easily overlook them. They
realty should be installed as standard, but at least they
have hard drive recovery programs, along with scripts
for reinstalling and lepatiitioning the drive.
If you are looking for a no-nonsense way of getting
your hands on a cheap, high capacity hard drive, the
Eyetech solution should be on top of your shopping
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Due to 3.5" drive having a separate power
supply it comes with a modified disk drive
connector so it can be powered off the
internal disk drive power connector. Plug
the connector into the power supply on the
motherboard and then plug the disk drive
power connector into the back of this.
Once in place., the keyboard fits flush over
the drive and the sticky pads fix the drive
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be precise, this comprehensive
book isn't one for the total Amiga
boffin. I'm sorry to say, but there
are far too many of those on the
shelves already for you to scramble your brain
around. The first step series claims to do
exactly what it says in a creative and enlight-
ening way, An impossible task you may say,
but it manages to achieve confidence on my
behalF and I am, 1 have to admit, an absolute
beginner when it comes to the Amiga.
Consequently, this will be a totally honest
review from an uneducated user
Paul Overaa has made your life even
easier by making almost every topic serf
contained, so if you want to read about com-
puter viruses you don't have to have read the
""^Wjip I previous chapter to
Am I undefsta , nd * - 9il
you need to do is
turn to that page
without referring to
any other. However,
"it is recommended
that you read chap-
ters one to five
as they contain
[essons of impor-
tance that every Amiga user should know
about
When your brain has not absorbed too
much information, you can browse the book
in sequence or be a rebel and read the chap-
ters in a Japanese manner from back to Front
A marvellous introduction because we all
know how annoying it is to have to flick
through 500 irrelevant pages before you
eventually get to understand the page you are
actually interested in.
User-friendly
Every page is illustrated with a user-friendly
layout, something all books should contain. It
is not overwhelming with regard to the num-
ber of pages which Is good to see as there is
nothing worse than getting a pocket sized
handbook for beginners that is closer to
resembling an encyclopaedia.
If yoo haven't guessed by now, this is cer-
tainty not a book for the computer expert
who wants to know everything one step
ahead pf the computer itself. It does, there-
fore, consistently deal with the basics On
topics ranging from the necessities of look-
ing after your disk;, information an the
wnrkbench, Amiga documents, and using
DOS, to the more simplistic tasks of copying
files.
This book can solve all your deadfy fears
about the Amiga and actually get you started,
without the sarcasm of the more technical
texts that begin with 'first turn your computer
on'. Do yourself a favour and read what the
first steps series has to offer.
easy way
These two books in the Amiga First Steps
series make Amiga learning easier.
Liz Ogden tackles her first Amiga review
MIGA SURFIN
^"^ or those or" voir who are not fully
'"" " acquainted with me Informa-
tion Superhighway yet., baking
at the cover of this book might
moke you think what the term surfin' realty
means. Don't be confused with all the jar-
gon that accompanies the Internet, it realty
isn't oil that difficult to master once you've
actually been surfin', as it is calkd. it's a
tool and a great asset in broadening your
level of understanding, together with expanding on
your number of contacts.
the author, KarlJeacte, has included a chart at the
Internet at the start of the text so as you gradualty
read on you will get to understand it more. This book
is aimed at getting your TV-haoked-up-Arnigo linked
to the powerful internet.
its aim is not to overload you with too much techni-
cal information but to explain the best way of hooking
up your computer to experience the Net. Take note
from the author himself if you are thinking of getting
connected, ft doesn't mean you have to change your
system altogether - just some extra RAM and a hard
drive is enough to begin with. Aithough the book may
look very technical when you flick through it,
the topics have been carefully selected and
related to the Amiga user Many specialised
texts tike to waffle about the history and
advantages of this incredible technology, and
you wilt find some of that information con-
tained within, but only the necessary amounl
that you need to understand, The remaining
concentrates on getting you to work your way
around the Internet in conjunction with the
Amiga.
I can guarantee that if you are already thinking of
installing the Internet into your home, aker reading
the first three chapters of this book you won't need
any persuading. It's not a completely different worfa\ il
jus! takes a white to adjust to the style of language
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part about getting Internet streetwise, and the follow-
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stop you from contacting your friend down the road or
a high profile celebrity in Kuala Lumpur.
If you've not gathered already, there is too much far
you to miss out on here. So spend a little time to read
through the relevant chapters and get surfin '. £ '*¥
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AUGUST 1996
you need a serial printer,, perhaps you need to
work witti Macs, then trie option is there.
As the Epson has U4 emulation, you can use
the standard Amiga LaserJet printer driver and
get decent results straight away. Also, because
the Epson does not come with any Amiga dri-
vers or software, you will have to get copies of
Studio II or Turbo Print ff you don't have them
The main two disadvantages with, the Amiga dri-
ver is that firstly, it only works up to 300 dpi, so
you will never get the best out of the Epson, and
secondly, you will be stuck with the poor 16
shades of grey output that the Amiga is still
lumbered with.
Even with a third-party print package there
are still problems, particularly when printing at
On some ways Epson can be thought
of as the grand daddy of computer
printers. It has been around since
the beginning of time and its origi-
nal Epson dot matrix primers set the standard
that made sure every printer was Epson com-
patible. Years later, Epson is still producing top
quality printers
The Epson 5500 is a 600 dpi laser printer that
has full LaserJet 4 emulation, along with emula-
tion of Hewlett Packard's GL/2 plotter com-
mands. Physically, the printer is very compact,
measuring around only 14 inches wide by
about eight inches deep, without the paper tray
being down, and stands nine inches high.
Overall it seems to only take up about a third of
Ihe space of my DeskJet550C
The lower front loading paper
tray and the upper paper recep-
tacle that folds put over the front
can hold around 150 and 100
sheets of paper Tespectivery.
Controls are very sparse, with
only a power switch and a single
control button on the top of the
printer.
When you first unpad the
printer you have an extra two
boxes - one contains the printer
toner, that is the black ink on the
paper, and the other is the laser
printer's photo conductor unit
that marks the paper where the
toner will fix to. Once unpacked,
both easily slip into place inside
the printer, with the toner sitting
cm top of the photo conductor
for quick and simple replace-
ment when it does run out The
toner should last for about 3000
prints and the photo conductor
should do around 20,000 prints
before needingto be replaced.
Obviously, this depends on the
sort of printing you are doing.
If you remove the side panel
and the metal casing underneath, there are two
Simm slots One is for the printer's own memo-
ry and the other is for a ROM module, Using a
single 5imm, the printer can have anywhere
from 1 Mb to 32Mb of RAM on board. Unless
you are going to be doing complex postscript
printouts or using a lot of downloadable fonts,
2- or possibly 4Mb of RAM should be enough
The ROM module allows you to add new
emulation modes, most notably the Epson
Script level 2, that give the printer full level 2
Postscript printing abilities, at an extra cost of
course. Another extra lhait Epson, offers is a ser-
ial interface because as standard, the printer
onry has a parallel port This will be fine for the
majority erf Amiga users, but if for some reason
Qerfecting your prints
Ifs probably been said in just about every printer /ewe* that's been done in Amiga
Computing, but if you wont to tj^f the best out a( your printer, whether it be a top-of-the-
range laser or just a lowly oW 9-pin dot matrix, voir need to gel hold of some third-party soft-
ware to allow you to get complete control aver your print outs. Until recently, your only choke
would have been Studio li, but with the recently released Turbo Print you hove the choke of
the two. Using the LaserJet IV emulatan and playing around with the gamma settings, you
could get reasonable results with the Epson.
the full 600 dpi which results in the print outs
beinrg very dark. This could be caused by the
RiTech smoothing that is a built-in extra of the
Epson, but there was no way of telling as the
only way you can adjust the RiTech level is via
the Windows software.
At the end of the day the Epson is an excel-
lent printer, ft is small, fast, quiet and simple to
use, ft is just a shame that you cannot get the
best out of it from the Amiga, You can either
blame Epson for not providing a specific Amiga
printer driver or Amiga software, or you could
just as easily ask "Why carit I have download-
able fonts, 24-bit print outs and prints at the full
dpi as standard?" Unfortunately, we will have to
waft and see what vlScorp can produce, r^.
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AUGUST 1996
--^^v aving explained what Altera is
J ■ M and hew an ARexx program is
V physically created, it's time to
^^fc^ tackle some of the fundamentals
of the language itself - beginning with chose
ARexx variables I introduced last month. With
many computer languages, such as Basic,
different types of variables have to be used
to store different things. Text strings, for
example, need to be stored in string vari-
ables, numbers in variables that have been
especially identified as hold-
ing numeric values and so on.
ARexx is nowhere near as
fussy in this respect and vari-
ables are able to hold text
strings, whole numbers, even
numbers with decimal parts,
without you, the programmer,
having to take any special pre-
cautions (this is what is meant
by saying ARexx variables are
'typeless'). What's more, when
you are dealing with numbers
you can use addition (+) r sub-
traction (-), multiplication {*)
and division if) symbols to
modify the contents of those variables. You
can use those same symbols to manipulate
real numbers as well. If, for example, you
wanted to get ARexx to print the result of
Paul Overaa continues
this guide, looking at
variables and the ]
functions they perform
Afcst Part 2
Command
norm an
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t titS.r txx t »it 8 . riKK
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adding 26 and 24 together you could just
write:
iay IMt,
Alternatively, you could create a couple of
variables, set them to 26 and 24 respectively,
and add the two variables together. If we
chose a and b as the names of the two vari-
ables then the ARexx statements that we'd
need to write would be these:
pan:>RX TrTSTi
Enter nunber of lbs
this is 246 ounces
ran\>
The same result could be obtained by using
another variable, let's call it sum, and writing:
*"1 Thou who don't Hk* typing will Itnd
ail tli* rnxmrnplBM on rhs cover-disk
Either way, when ARexx looks at these
n fltrambcf you'll need jo us*
rh* RX eommatiti from ttii Shrtli
la nut the mxampte corf*
statements it sees that it is dealing with num-
bers and provides 50' as the answer, it there-
fore, you wished to write an ARexx program
that converted pounds weight into ounces
you could do it like this:
I* ttltl.Ftfi - Eunvtrt lbs t« Dumt!
siy 'Enter nmber t>\ Lb j '
pull lb!
raaululbt'la
say 'Tiii ia' rtsittt 'euncat'
Notke that there are three text strings in this
QlME
TO TALK
When ARexx encounters statements that are not
obvious errors, yet have no meaning to ARexx itself,
something interesting happens - it transmits the
statement using a mechanism known as the Exec
messaging system. Vou don't need to know how
these arrangements work internally (it's eomplica-
ted), all you need to be aware of is that all pro-
grams which are able to receive these messages,
i.e. programs which have an 'ARexx Interface', will
be provided with an ARexx message port and this
will have a name, To specify a- particular program as
being the destination for any statements that ARexx
transmits you simply use this sort of statement near
the start of your script;
jddrtij 'i-gitpgrlAiae'
You will find a very simple utility on the coverdisk
this month called ACRexx which opens a small win-
dow, sets up and monitors an ARexx port (called
ACRexx), and then sits there displaying any
messages that it is Sent I've provided it so, rather
than just taking my word that some statements
inside your ARexx scripts can be physically sent
across to Other programs, you'll be able to see tan-
gible evidence of this transfer! Vou can run the pro-
gram from the Workbench by double-clicking on its
icon. Do rt now, and then open a Shell window and
type in and run the following program as explained
last month;
/* tiitl.rm '.'
address ■tttm'
'Utile ao'ld' "
You will see the message 'Hello World' appear in its
window, The ACRexx utility simply displays the mes-
sages it receives rather than acting on them and
carrying out particular jobs, This is because it was,
with one notable exception, programmed by me to
do this, The exception is the message QUIT, so if
that command is added to the previous example:
■tiaaflt9.rm ','
Idresi ' *,-: R e x k '
H«Up fttflJ 1
■IT 1
then on running the program you will first see the
'Hello World' message appear in the ACRexx display
window, then you see the QUIT message... and
then ACRexx will shut down and disappear!
The important thing to understand here is that
this happens, not because QUIT has some mystical
ARexx significance but because I've programmed
the ACRexx utility to continually look for this partic-
ular message and dose its window and terminate
when it arrives. This, of course, is a simple example
of one ARexx-oriented program, namely the ARexx
script listed above, controlling another program (in
this case ACRexx). Most programs that have far
more complicated ARexx interfaces recognise and
act on all sorts of commands, but since this is the
main topic for the next instalment I'm afraid you'll
have to wait until then for the details!
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1995
program, 'Enter number of lbs', This is', and
'ounces', and two variables (called lbs and
result).
You'll be using variables in almost all of the
scripts you write but although the examples
shown above are easy enough to understand,
ARexx variables do not always react in quite
the way newcomers expect Consider these
two programs:
leitl.
•fKI
','
it 1 / 'test
■
1* tut!.
rsii
tf
hi test
The first, as you should realise, prints the
word,,, test In the second case, however,
the output printed is TEST. Why the differ-
ence? Well, because the quotes were not
placed around 'test' in the second example,
ARexx assumed that test was a variable
rather than a text string. Now you might
imagine that, since this variable was not ini-
tially set to any particular value, ARexx
would print either an empty string (i.e. noth-
ing}, or perhaps a zero. In fad ARexx does
neither - instead it automatically initialises
the variable to a text string which is the
name of the variable itself! At this point you
need to be aware that internally, ARexx uses
uppercase characters for its variables so the
program's test variable, as far as ARexx is
concerned, is the variable TEST.
The bottom line then is that in the second
of the above examples we are printing the
contents of a variable not a static text string.
Because the variable was not explicitly set to
a specific value, ARexx initialised it for us,
setting it to the string TEST which, as far as
ARexx is concerned, is the name of the vari-
able. This means, incidentally, that with
ARexx different variables must always have
differently spelt names. Some computer lan-
guages would regard a program: containing
variables called Test, test, and TEST »s hav-
ing three separately defined variables. ARexx
doesn't - it regards them all as the same
variable TEST although it doesn't mind what
combination of upper or lower case letters
you use when writing its namel
The fact that ARexx variables are typeless
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All the examples we've looked art so far have consisted of a straight sequence of instructions
but ARexx, in common with other languages like Basic, also provides easy-to-use loop
facilities which let you carry out a series of operations a given number of times, Here is a
program which uses an ARexx DO-END loop to print the equivalent number of ounces in the
2-12 lbs range:
r* tMtl.rtii - tbs ind oune*3 tabti '/
do tki ■ t ts 12
ttlvtiAbt'H
say [ti 'pounds -' result 'tuntti
end
ARexx sets the lbs variable to 2 and then performs all the instructions between the
DO/END markers. It then adds one to the lbs variable and repeats those operations again,
continuing while lbs is not greater than 12. Loops, however, are just one part of the lan-
guage. ARexx actually provides a whole range of arithmetic/logic operations and as well as
the simple variables that we've used already, it supports things called compound variables
which allow whole sets of objects to be manipulated. It also offers error detection and built-
in trace facilities for debugging scripts. All this will be dealt with later in the series but to
complete this instalment we are going to take our first look at the area where ARexx will be
very different from any other computer language you may have seen.
rightly complain:
I* ttStS.riri *l
■■'ttrtptnit 1
8*1 1*1
On running the above program, ARexx will
report an error because it knows that trying
to add the text string 'aeroplane' to a number
doesn't make sense. Although you wouldn't
do this deliberately these type of errors will
occur when you forget to initially set vari-
ables to a numeric value before carrying out
some arithmetic operation with them. Look
at this program for example:
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Sly >*'
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Ilka fin*l Copy wirf Wondrwvrth
provide good ovampto* at tna b+natfta
of an Altevx interface
means that at different times you may use
the same variable to hold both text strings
and numbers. Look at this example:
In the above example, x is used first to hold
a text string and then a number, and if you
run the program this is the sort of result that
will be seen:
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covatnlmk) gsvmr v a v * ctaJnc* to *** AH* mm
tranamittlna rtt+aa+ga* la *i*>lfr*r program
Despite the fact that x was initially set up
as a text string, once a number is placed in
the variable, ARexx is quite happy to perform
arithmetic operations on it What happens, in
fact, is that ARexx always looks at the con-
tents of its variables just prior to using them
- providing those contents are valid for the
type of operation being performed, ARexx is
perfectly happy.
Although ARexx is very flexible in this
respect it cannot do the impossible. If, for
instance, you attempt to carry out an arith-
metic operation on a text string ARexx will
Because x was not explicitly initialised. ARexx
set it to the uppercase string X. Since adding
1 to a text string is then not a valid operation,
ARexx again reports an error, frjgf
QUMMARY
Here, for easy reference, are those impor-
tant points concerning the behaviour of
ARexx variables:
• ARexx variables are typeless and do not
have to be declared as being strings, inte-
gers, floating point numbers etc. ARexx
looks at each item just before using it and
decides whether it is dealing with numbers
or pieces of text,
• Variables which are not explicitly initialised
by your program are automatically set to a
text string which represents the name of the
variable. This string will consist of UPPER-
CASE characters because . .
• ARexx converts all variable names to
uppercase before using them. Needless to
say, this means that case has no signifi-
cance in ARexx variables and labels, X and x
represent the same variable as do lbs,Lbs,
and LBS!
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Oast month i dealt with the initial
planning and set up of the design,
and this month we're still not
going to be uploading anything,
at least, I'm not going to be dealing with that
side of the design yet In the meantime, youll
be able to see how the Web page is pro-
gressing at the address shown in the boxout
at the bottom of the page. Before we actually
get down to the nitty gritty of the Web site
construction, we ought to take a look at the
tools I'll be using to create this masterpiece.
The single most important thing to have is
a Web browser of some description and the
best available on the Amiga at the moment is
iBrowse. Now whether you buy i Browse as a
commercial package from HiSoft or simply
download the demo version from
ttp.omnipresence.com, is up to you, and fie
Web pages we are creating will work equally
well in either version of the package. If you
are using another browser like AUVeb or
Voyager, be warned that we will be using
HTML tags that neither of these packages
understands at the time of writing, so you'll
need lu either get a copy ol iBrowse after all,
or perhaps a better browser like Netscape if
you have access to a PC or Mac
Possibilities
The next piece of software you'll need is a
text editor of some description. I'll be using
Turbotext 2. the best editor I've come across
{also available bom HiSoft), but ewer
EdDwouW do the job. it will help if your text
editor and Web browser have an ARexx inter-
face, opening up the possibilities of automat-
ically updating the browser when you make
changes in your text editor.
The last piece of essential software, if you
want your pages to be more than just text, is
a graphics package, for this exercise I will be
using Personal Paint exclusively. The major
reason for this is PPainfs superb handling of
Web-oriented graphics file formats,
What am I talking about? GIF. that's what
P Paint is the only package 1 know of on the
Amiga that has such a friendly attitude to a
user's desire to create transparent and pro-
gressive GIF files (also known as GIF89A
files). Personal Paint is also renowned for te
image processing features which will mean
EJot
And so it
begins, the
practical side of
creating a Web
site- Here are the
first steps to take guided by Ben Vost
Part
that I shouldn't have to touch another pack-
age, There are a few ancillary products that
will come in handy while you are creating
your Web site. One is undoubtedly some sort
of filemanager for organising your HTML and
graphics files better, and another would be an
image viewer that tan tell you additional
information about a picture such as the num-
ber oi bitplanes and, most importantly, the
size of the image. You should probably also
No, nothing to do with cars just a poor, tongue-in-
cheek reference to Wore Obscure Tags. By now
you should he familiar with the old <IMG
SRC^graphicgif^ HTML tag, but there ore a
couple of odd-vns we can pat in there before the
right angle brocket
The first, for our purposes, is the ALT= keyword.
This can either represent another, smaller version
of your picture or, more usefully, some text
describing the picture. I say 'more usefully'
because the one good reason for using the ALT fag
is if the person on your Site isn't downloading your
images for some reason. It would stilt be nke if
they knew what the blank areas in their browser
were supposed to represent, and putting some
text after the ALT= tug means they now have it
Check out the Amiga Computing home page
what 9xtrm tag* cmn do to images
(http.-www.idg.co.uk/amtgacQmp/) without ima-
ges turned on (you might need to dear your cache
too) and you'll see descriptions, ol what each of
the buttons down the left-hand side da.
Next up, and another boon, are the WIDTH=
and HEtGHT= tags that require you to enter the
appropriate sues for your image. You can put any
size you like for these tags and the browser should
automatically resize the images appropriately, but,
and it's a big but on the Amiga, some browsers
don't take kindly to it, including most revisions of
iBrowse. Last up for this month is the BOftDER=0
tag. This very handy number stops the disconcert-
ing bright blue border around a button from
appearing. This mecrni your nice round buttons
can actually be round, rather than being boxed in
by the horrendous border.
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
Qraphics on the web site
The transparency and progressive display effects of
the GIF file format can make a Web page a tot more
attractive and are easy to achieve in Persona! Paint
For oar pictures with captions on the Web site, you
can simply type the text for the caption onto the
PPaint work screen, next to the image, and then cut
out the whole thing as a brash. Whatever colour
you have as the background colour gets made
transparent, as you'd expect, with brushes, and it is,
this colour that becomes the transparency when
you save the image out as a GIF,
Of course, with some of the images an our site
this would prove a problem because o! the fact that
the default, background colour in PPaint is the same
as the Workbench background colour. Bat this isn't
a real problem. Ail you need to do is select a colour
that isn't being used (you might need to increase
the colour depth of the image to do this), and paint
mis behind the area for the caption. This is easier to
see than to explain, but you should end up with a
caption which is attached to your picture, but float-
ing over the background colour or image in your
Web browser. If you want to see for yourself how
I . S*-e IJie bright blue? Thla writ bm^tfm*
transparnnt in the bra wmbt anil the Pragma * fir*>
Display tick trtwitnm (fr* image will Aecemr visib/e
inttarttiy, ana undvrcianrfabfr soon
this works, try downloading one of the images used
on the Web site (the MFR one is particularly suited
to this) and have a took at it iwtfi an image viewer
fike Viewtek. You should see that the colour behind
the caption text is a bright blue not found elsewhere
in the image.
Just so you know, the three buttons in the PPaint
brush save options work as follows:
CIF8B - if you have this ticked, whatever was the
background colour (and hence transparent) of your
brush will be saved as transparent
Progressive Display - this will ensure that your
image 'reaes up' when it is being downloaded from
the server. Ho more having to wait until the whale
thing is on your hard drive before you can see it
Screen Format - you should leave this one
unticked for the most part, although it atmosi cer-
tainty won't cause any harm. It tells any viewing
programs that want to linen what Amiga screen-
mode the image should be shown on.
get the HTML Guides available on the Aminet
in order ta help you understand the principles
behind what we are doing, although you
should be prepared for some fairly technical
mumbo- jumbo.
Before we actually start on the HTML cod-
ing part of the tutorial, let's talk about direc-
tory structures and file naming conventions. If
you are only planning a simple Web site it
may be that you end up just putting alt your
files into one drawer and leaving it at dial
Some people I know like to separate their
graphics into another drawer, and for the pur-
poses of this tutorial we will have a graphics
drawer, and also sub-directories for various
types of graphic
Organisation
When I first started doing HTML I had a 'suck-
it-and-see' kind of approach, but now I try to
think of what the best way will be to organise
my Web site. You may be different, so don't
take what I say as gospel,, hut an example of
the chaos that can ensue was evident on the
Amiga Computing Web site, which I also cre-
ated. When I started the project everything
seemed fairly obvious, but now the site is so
much more complex I have had to completely
reorganise the way the files are stored.
If you have a look at the site now you will
notice that the sections that require monthfy
updates are actually sorted into directories
with the issue's number. Everything to do with
an issue will go into that drawer, whereas
things that get carried across different issues,
particularly graphics, get stored elsewhere
Organising the site this way has also meant
that I can offer a 'back issue' service where vis-
itors can view previous issues' news, letters,
etc
Next is file naming. Although you don't have
to worry about sticking to an 6.3 filename like
on a PC, there ore some restrictions, Spaces in
names are a no-no, as are certain characters
(which, in any case, AmigaDQS doesn't like
you using in filenames). Also, Unix, the operat-
ing system of choice for Web servers, distin-
guishes between upper and lower case letters,
The single most
important thing to have
is a Web browser of
some description and
the best available at the
moment is iBrowse
so it is best to either make all your filenames
one case or the other or don't use capitalisa-
tion at all. This goes for filenames and directo-
ries and is probably the hardest thing to
remember when it comes to creating a Web
site, especially when dealing with names that
are normally capitalised, like Amiga', for
instance
5o we've covered all the pitfalls that might
occur before you start coding your page, but
what about things that can cause problems
once you've gotten started? Probably the
biggest is the lack d certainty about how your
page will look Oh sure, it miight look great on
your browser, on your machine, with your fonts
and at your resolution, but the very flexibility of
the WWW can also be its downfall, Try to stick
to the Web's average sites of about 600 x 400
for your page and you can't go far wrong. Vou
can also try to use simple graphics for your
headlines rather than relying on the <H7> tags.
As long as you keep your images simple there's
no reason why they won't download in nearly
as little time as the text itself
Ah well, out of room again. Next month
we'll actually try to upload our fledging page to
our service provider and see what happens
when it actually goes online.
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[3
Ohose of you who have been
experimenting with the Easy-
BaseAC program will know that
the main control window allows
database records to be selected using a scrol-
lable ListView gadget ListView gadgets are,
on the face of it, quite easy to set up - you
just specify USTVIEW_KIND in the gadtool
library's CreateGadgetO routine whilst provid-
ing a few tag items to describe the character-
istics of the gadget. Unfortunately, one
required tag, GTlV_Labels (used to specify the
gadget's label entries), tends to throw a
spanner in the works because it involves
Ejtec lists.
As many of you will doubtless already
know, Exec uses lists to store almost every-
thing that it has to deal with and because of
this, the exec library includes a small set of
generalised list handling functions. Routines
exist for adding, deleting, finding items and
for inserting list entries according to various
orders and priorities. When EasyBaseAC cre-
ates or reads In a database file it uses these
routines to build an Exec-style list where each
entry in the list represents a database record.
The important part of the main EasyBaseAC
w>ndow, then, Is basically just a ListView gad-
get with an Exec-style list of database records
attached to it I
Building blocks
To understand how EasyBaseAC databases
are created and manipulated whilst in mem-
ory, you need tp understand about Exec lists.
The fundamental building block of these is a
structure known as an Exec Node. As defined,
these Nodes are divided into two parts:
Firstly, there's the linkage data which consists
of two pointers used to hold information
about the next item in the list and the previ-
ous item. Secondly,, there is some internal
node information which consists of a type
field, a 'priority' field, and a pciinter to a node
name. As a C structure an Exec Node looks
like Ink
Exec's list functions work just on the fields
present in the Node Structure itself. This
means that, providing a Node structure is
made the first part of whatever data Is being
,"i When a record I* »J«t*ri
Intuition sends ttiu program an
IDCMP GADGETUP rn»»9»oe
worked on, the Exec routines can effectively
manipulate structures of any sire. In practice,
the real data associated with a particular list
node is defined by extending the Node struc-
ture. This is exactly what has been done with
EasyBaseAC and in the general.h header that
was provided with the second instalment, you
will find that i created my own ListNode unit
by combining an In Field array (representing
the fields of a database record) with an Exec
Node like this:
Paul Overaa
explains how
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Before node data can be added to an Exec
list o 'list header' has to be prepared which, as
a C structure, has this form:
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database files are
stored in memory
nodes Stored in the list, and several types are
defined in the exec/types-h include file. The
amigaiib library contains a NewListQ function
which can initialise a list header and listing 1
shows this routine in use-
One important point to bear in mind when
using Exec lists b that when you See a pointer
to an Exec list, you are looking net at the first
node in the list, but at the list header!
lh_Head points to the first node in the list,
Ihjail is always NULL, and IhJailPred (tail pre-
decessor) points to the last real node of the list
Within the List structure the Ihjype field is
used to store information about the type of
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Exec provides general node addition and deletion rou-
tines plus special case routines - AddHeadQ,
RemHeadQ, AddTai1Q,RemTail0 - for adding and
removing node elements from the fronts and ends of
lists. An EnqueueQ function is also available for adding
nodes into a list in priority field order along with a node
searching routine, FindNameQ, which allows a list to be
searched for a node of a given name. The Exec list-
manipulation routines themselves are not hard to
understand but it's probably worth mentioning a cou-
ple of EasyBaseAC code areas that you might find it
useful to examine.
If you look back at the window2.c code (the
EasyBaseAC editing window) provided with the third
part of the series you'll see that when a user clicks on
the window's Store gadget a routine called SloreDataQ
is executed. This copies the record information held in
the string gadgets into a temporary g_new_ncde struc-
ture and then calls an AddToListQ routine whose job is
to allocate and set up a new ListNode structure in
memory and link it into an Exec list You'll find the
AddToListQ routine present in this month's window Lc
source and one important assignment in this code is
the setting of the node's !n_Name field so that it points
to the name of the first field of the database record:
ids rj-j-* I njoii , Ln Jait-li not yj-> Inji ■ IdtD] [Q I;
Ifs because this has been done that the ListView
gadget attached to the window displays the first (key)
field of each record. As soon as the various new node
fields have been set up or copied into the memory allo-
cated for the node, the (possibly empty) list has to be
searched to see where the new record data should be
inserted. A system macro IsLstEmptyQ provides a nice
easy way to tell whether a list is empty and if this is so,
we know straight away that the new node being added
is the first node in the list. It gets added like this:
W4Heid(g_ditaoin_!,in_p,(itni:t Mr 'litMryj);
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SAVING
You'll also find LaadFil«() and SaveFileO
routines in this month's coverdisk mod-
ule and both use ordinary C-type file
handling. To save off a database we
open a file, write out a database
header and then use a loop to write
record headers and record data far
each node in the database Fist
This means, of course, that records
get written to disk in the key field
sorted order that they appear in the
Li st view gadget. Consequently, this
makes file loading relatively straight-
forward since no sorting has to
be done.
To load a data base we open the file
and then, providing a suitable Easy-
BaseAt file identifier is found, simply
allocate List Nodes and read in record
information until we come to the end of
the file
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itruct Lilt •CrtitiLiitr.nrtd)
I
itmet List *Hitj;
if (HHj'UlKclltiisiHiitCjtruit Lht),HWr tUaH)
I
NmLiitUistj);
I
returri [Ustjl;
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allocation and initialisation routine
strjit Lisi 'Uearltstlitrtitt List 'list e)
it net Rod* 'rtitj;
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tf(Ustjj)
{
uhile -fnnd*_p=«*allmlHilj))
fr«P!(i(Biydf_p,ii!(iif(jtrurt Ustlodel);
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}
returnlNULL);
esse i g [HP Ji» SETUP:
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if (cod*)
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]
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|fsflUyListH?j(:g currant nede_p);
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provided by Intuition It urmd to identify an Eaayll***AC record
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This empty list situation only happens as a database is
being set up and the first record stored is actually a
durnmy one that contains the field names to be used
when entering real data. Just before performing the
AddHeadf) routine you'll notice that ] force a blank
character into a bufferQ variable and add this to the
database's key field name originally provided by the
user. This is done to ensure that the field labels fecord
will be permanently kept at the start of the list (provid-
ing no other record is added whose key field starts with
a blank). Okay, I admit it - this is a temporary bodge
until I think of something better!
Once a list has at least one record in it, record
addition gets a little more complicated. In order to
keep records sorted (so that they appear in
alphabetical order in the Listtfew gadget), a loop has
to be used to step through the list nodes comparing
existing node names with the name of the new node
being added. The comparison is done using a case
insensitive stricmpQ function and, depending on the
result, either a list InsertQ or a list AddTail() operation
is performed.
As you examine the list searching code, notice how
the first node of the list is found:
nodi jig _di t a ba s ej i s t_p-> I t_H tii;
and how, where necessary, we move from one node to
the next in the list by using a node's In Succ field like
this:
code jin*dt j-> I n_£nt t ;
You'll be able to get the full code details from the
coverdisk and will find other list-based routines such
as the ClearListQ routine shown in listing 2. This
uses a loop to successively remove and deallocate
ail the nodes of a list and then finally deallocates the
list header allocated when the list was originally
set up.
lirt inn i- This routine rmmoves a list and ita
iiiiruM lift header Irotn mamort
BV E R A L L
CODE
ORDER
The window f.c code module provided this
month is quite large but much of the code will
have a familiar ring to it. Window, gadget,
and menu creation, for example, all follow
the arrangements discussed previously. The
event handler used to process menu and
gadget events, though larger than the one
used in the winchw2.c module deaft with last
month, also adapts the same sort of nested
code 'event division' approach. This time,
however, it's easier to see the benefits.
incoming events ore identified and menu
events are passed on io their respective
menu handling routines where in each case
switch statements or? used (tn conjunction
with menu numbers) to pick a particular
course of action.
Perhaps the most interesting bit oi magic is
how clicking on a LislView record entry cau-
ses that record's information to appear in the
other two EasySaseAC windows. The code
fragment in listing 3 shows how it's done.
When a user selects o ListView gadget item,
Intuition sends an IDCMP GADGETUP mes-
sage and the code field of this message can-
tains the number of the node associated swtfr
the selected item. I simply collect this number
and read through the record list until i get to
that node. Having done that the information
is displayed by making a call to a routine
called OisployListNodefj which causes the
editing (window2,c) and disphy-onty (win-
daw3.c) windows to update their displays
That's about it for this month. Study the
Code, have fun, and HI provide the last part of
the story next month!
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Reviews
European Championship
Edition has finally arrived, and
apart from updated teams
there's... nothing new
haos Engine
.je Bitmap Brothers are back with an absolute
corker. Don't miss out as it could be the best
game of the year
Previews
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Portsmouth- based Vulcan Software is
already working on a new Valhalla and
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SYSTEM
news
By Andy Maddock
A bucket load of games
Calling
Sensible
Soccer
lovers
If you" re a big Sensi (an
then just wait until next
month when we'll bring you
o full guide on how to get to
that elusive International
Management position, and
give you a step-by-step
guide on how to be the
best manager in the world.
Well advise you on the
players to buy, what to do
with your money and inter-
national advice, as well as
some general tips on get-
ting more money and
much more. Look out tor
our Sensi extravaganza
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company that has penned in
some future releases which
are all looking quite
exciting. The basis of^
the developments is a program A
called Reality which is a
software construction kit writ
ten by BPM. It will be used on
the new titles which include
The Do ring Adventures Of
Robin Hood, Spacefighter,
and Reality will also be
released ,
Robin Hood will be a point
and click adventure game^
REALITY
The Urtmwte Sa-ftwwe Construcfesn Kil
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Nottingham. It's basically a Monkey Island-]
type adventure but with Robin Hood as the]
star of the show.
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^^Spacefighter. You may think It]
looks familiar, a bit like Body
. Blows by Team 17. but BPM
^claims that Spacefighter
M boasts more characters, artifl-
I cial intelligence, detailed
I backdrops, digitised speech
■ and special moves, At the
f moment it sounds like a beat-
em-up to rival the brand new
Capital Punishment but we'll
niww mm have to wait and see.
and Is scheduled for release arounu '" ^w* fist f**-' '"" The final product for the moment
September, BPM is currently concen- ^^^^^* j s | ne actual software construction
trating on the game design and flB *"'»' '■ (h * ****— ^ entitled Reality, Four years' work
construction package , .
graphics, making sure they are „,»,.„ #,„,,,, „„„ rou has gone into making this program,
almost perfect before advancing. knocking up qo*mr gamma helping people produce commer-
Obviously, the game will feature within minm** C j a | quality software products over
Robin Hood himself alongside Friar Tuck, Maid a short period. We'll have a preview next
Marion, Prince John ond the Sheriff of month.
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Slamtilt special editions
Here are a number of top secret, Slamtilt hidden fea-
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game. For example;
• If you type SMILE while the table is scrolling up and
down, the metal ball will be graced with a huge
cheesy grin, and if you're about to lose, the face will
change to a sulk.
• Type RADIOACTIVE and the whole colour scheme
of the table will change, Try it more than once to
achieve various effects,
• Type STONED and there will be a pseudo magnet
underneath the table making it all weird.
• Type WTPEOUT and all the high scores will be reset
• And if you type ARCADE ACTION It will allow you to
head straight for the arcade sections of Slamtilt,
1 nil
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Game Engine
A new software company
called Aspire 2 has deci-
ded to release a brand
new software construc-
tion program. It uses some
easy menus so you can
fiddle around designing
sprites and backgrounds
within minutes. There's
also an impressive exam-
ple game featuring a
chicken or a duck (I can't
tell)!! We'll give you more
information next month
when we'll give it the full
going over.
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SYSTEM
review
World of
Euro '96 Edition
PUBLISHER
Time Warner Interactive
DEVELOPER
Sensible Software
PRICE
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Hver the last six months or so. Time
Warner Interactive has been
releasing Sensible World of Soccer
editions like nobody's business, But
why? It's probably because
Sensible Soccer is reputed to be the best game
ever on the Amiga and these new versions
manage to keep the fans of the game
perfectly happy by continually updating
competitions and teams.
The biggest step for TWl was the 95/96 ver-
sion where features such as displaying the
name of the player in the top left-hand corner
animated crowds, team training and manage-
ment records were Introduced. All these fea-
tures should have been included In the first
version of SWQS,
Many people complained after the initial
release of SWOS because it repeatedly
crashed, the player ratings and values were all
wrong and there were many small, annoying
bugs which almost put people off the game for
life. However. TWl stepped In with its first
Sensible release and it was absolutely brilliant.
All the features which should have been
included were there and to
top things off, all the players' data Including
values and skills were updated.
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Minor alterations
You can also bear in mind that on the PD
movement there ore a few SWOS editors
around allowing you to fiddle with the play-
ers' values and names. You should be able
to find one on Aminet somewhere. The
included custom team editor which comes
with the original game is pretty awful
because you can't import your own teams
into proper competitions,
If you can get hold of one of these, then
within minutes you will be able to update
your gome as soon as a transfer is made,
which will please any SWOS lover.
When you score the England supporters hurl
Ihemiohrci into tfi* lir in shear jubilation. They
probably know If* not going to happen often
fact that players are transferring between
clubs mare than ever, and with the new ruling
coming in for next season, the transfer market
will see more movement from week to week.
Obviously the game will then outdate Itself and
become unrealistic .
TWl has decided to launch its new reiease in
line with what is the biggest football event to
hit England in 30 years, and that's Euro '96.
By the time you read this the European
Championships will have been battled out at
various football grounds such as Old Trafford,
Elland Road and Anfield to find the best team
in Europe. However the biggest talking point of
the event has almost certainty been the
groupings. Although Northern Ireland,
Republic of Ireland and Wales failed to qualify,
Scotland fought through to meet England in
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iwhurit are all those England players-?
Alan Sheerer steps up to meant a goaf after
IB month* ot nothing. Biimay... 16 months?
the same group, which will, without doubt,
prove to be one of the most competitive
matches for everyone involved.
Sensible World of Soccer is set to create all
the finest moments by setting up the entire
tournament for you, All the correct groups are
selected with all their corresponding fixtures,
and although Terry venables decided his
squad we it after SWOS was released. Time
Warner has managed to pick a side that
corresponds with some of the team,
Mere'* Teddy Shwringham
having a shot on goal, wftfch
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Final word
The actual gameplay has-
n't changed a single bit -
you may have to wait and
see if there's a Sensible
World of Soccer , v6/'v7
before you see some
changes. But for now, the
main alteration occurs with
the player data, with team
and player names chang-
ing And remember, this
version is still in line with this
season, so you won't be
able to play as Man City in
the first division just yet,
If you want to update
your version of SWOS with
all the latest player
changes then do so,
otherwise you couid be
advised to wait to see If
there's a new version In the
pipeline,
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lhalla
of Eve
Previewed by Dan Whitehead
shuffles into the shadows, crying like a girl. And
then, heralded by trumpets and body-pop-
ping in the streets, Valhalla returns on yet
another talkative steed to breathe new life into
the sagging Amiga bellows. But is it too late?
Tim© may have been a bitter duchess to the
Amiga, and time has moved on in the world of
games as well. Our chirpy Valhalla hero is now
all grown up. Grown up so much, in fact that
in the opening animation he's gone prema-
turely grey making him look like a bizarre
genetic accident involving John Craven and a
walrus. Despite his advanced ageing, or
maybe because of It, he's also discovered the
ow well I remember the arrival of
Valhalla into the Amiga gomes
pouch. Squirting on to the scene ot
a time when many people were
saying "Amiga's ore really bad, I like
PC games better", it's crisp speech -driven
adventures almost made some people stick
with their chunky, fudgy friend. Almost.
Well, time has moved on, the Amiga games
scene Is looking even shabbier than before
and Daddy PC is cruelly rubbing vinegar in its
eye. with help from the brutal brothers,
Playstation and Saturn. Things look very dark
indeed. Singing sensation David Reasance
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Ha ha you're dead
One of the most aggravating "things aboul
the original Valhalla gome, for me at least
was the way It would wantonly kill you with
hidden traps. Nobody likes sudden death,
and this is reflected in the Fortress Of Eve. Vou
now have an energy bar that depletes when
you come into contact with a hurty thing,
allowing you to at least try levers and switc-
hes without worrying that it could mean
game over.
joys of puberty and now yearns for a girlfriend.
And this, by jirniny. Is where you lot come In.
Look at the screenshofs, using your eyes.
Things don't look radically different, do they?
Of course, there'll be some saying "if it ain't
broke, don't fix it ", and there'll be others saying
"well, that's just lazy, I'm going to sulk," These
two schools of thinking will probably have a
big fight, with chairs and everything, leaving us
to concentrate on the game. If you've played
any of the previous Valhalla games, then you'll
know what to expect. Wander about, find
objects, talk to people and figure out what
goes where. It's a tried and trusted style, and it
works well with Valhaila's special 'cloak of
gimmicks'.
Lurking in the folds of this cloak are the fol-
lowing muffins. Speech is where it's at, once
more. The squeaky voiced prince chats aboul
what he's doing and what he sees in a techni-
cally Impressive, but mildly irritating way. Best
of all is when he describes his beloved subjects
as Ignorant peasants' to their faces, yet,
levers everywhere,
but whit da Mt*r do?
Our hero, part walrut, pmri John Craven
unfortunately, none of them punch him in the
jowls for this arrogant slur, Some of them will
offer clues, such as "I make painkillers", and
others just soy "hello". When I started playing,
and the prince started his wittering, those
around me pricked up their ears in recognition,
but were soon scowling at me as his voice
began to grate. So thankfully, there is an
option to gag him and Just use text.
Minor changes to the game have been
implemented, just to keep things moving with
the times, Most noticeable is the fact that the
viewpoint has shifted from overhead to a more
Isometric view, allowing you to get a better
idea of what objects are. It also looks nicer, if
you want my opinion, Another addition is what
can only be described as 'intelligent virtual sur-
faces', which Is a fairly meaningless description
that I just made up to make it sound more
technical What it means is that your footsteps
will change depending on the surface you're
walking on. If it's earth then it's a sort of plod,
and if you take a short cut through the grass,
you make a sort of scrunchy squelch noise,
Insight
Fortress Of Eve should be dancing on the vil-
lage green In next to no time because the
version we messed about with was pretty
much done, apart from some extra buffing on
the sound and graphics. It doesn't seem to
be a huge leap forward, but lt r s a quality
product with a popular pedigree.. And that's
nice, We'll give you a full review when we feel
like it,, you cheeky Imps,
6 It doesn't
seem to be
a huge leap
forward, but
it's a quality
product with
a popular
pedigree 9
79
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review
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PUBLISHER
Time Warner Interactive
DEVELOPER
The Bitmap Brothers
PRICE
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he Bitmap Brothers is probably
one of the most respected soft-
ware developers ever in the com-
puter game industry. We have
been brought delights such as
Xenon. Xenon 2. Speedboll, Magic Pockets,
and Gods, amongst others,
At □ time when the Amiga games seen©
was only just getting itself together producing
the odd playable game, The Bitmap Brothers
lifted high above everyone else especially in
terms of graphics and payability.
Although Xenon was an excellent vertical
scrolling shoot-'em-up. Xenon 2 was the
biggest hit, it even managed to acquire a
score 0MO8 per cent, believe It or not, In one
of Amiga Computing's early Issues, After
that, the games
just kept coming,
each one slightly
better than the last,
and in my opinion, the best
was most definitely Speedball which was
certainly beyond my expectations,
The Bitmap Brothers' last contribution was
Chaos Engine, and then there followed an
absence from the gaming scene - the
company was still around but weren't pro-
duced anything. However, that's about to
change,
When I heard that Chaos Engine 2 was sup-
posed to be released, to be honest I was
really surprised, The games market is slowly
but surely disappearing, but a major
You can iete-ct your ehartcter from *hcwt tour, t think,
I can't remember, bur you'll find out when you bay it
You have to dnf*t*t * numbor of robot* to gut
point; and n»*f of alt to gmt them out gf thm way
Sight and sound
As with ail of Bitmap's releases, the graphics
are excellent with smooth animation, mofc
ing Chaos Engine a pleasure to play, and
the tough challenge your opponent will pre-
sent you,, be it either human or computer, will
Increase the longevity of the game,
Actually, if you beat the computer opposi-
tion during your first bout, his intelligence will
be increased for the next round, so before
you think you're an expert and play again,
remember that simple point,
The sound effects have an added touch
too, As you get closer to your opponent or
the exit the music and the tempo will
increase, therefore making it more exciting.
Once again, it's a small 1 touch but one which
contributes to making another excellently
thought out game by the software
developers we have come to admire.
developing team has come up with a major
title Blimey, things must be looking up
If you played the original Chaos Engine you
will realise that the second in the series looks
remarkably similar, apart from some new lev-
els. As far as the basic sprites and levels go
they are almost the same, but the gameplay
is different. This time more emphasis has gone
into a two-player option where you can
challenge each other,
The basic idea of the game is to pick up a
key to open the door to the end of the level,
and the first to do this wins. It's a simple idea
which works superbly for a game like Chaos
Engine, If you're playing by yourself, you will
be working against the computer. Vou can
pick up various power ups and weapon
You hlW to throw dyn.imitf over the wall tu blow up
this thing and I hen you can pick up the remains
Thvre'f the key, but you've fuat fatten Hat on your
face! Oat up, dual yourseU down and finish the tmvmt
KiMti that bald matt again
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The axptitttonx arm wary Brtmap'Sikc, you
writ ih them on at! sorts of gama*
boosts to help you in your goal but, failing
that, you can give your opponent a knock
round the back of the head to stun him, giv-
ing you enough time to find the key and run
away like hell,
Instead of coming out with your guns blaz-
ing, you can simply play cat and mouse and
hide from your opponent - although not for
long because there Is a handy map which
will point out your position,
Even if your opponent gets to the exit
before you, you can still beat him because
the game Is based on points and as there are
various bonuses lying around you can con-
stantly increase your score. However, the
biggest point bonus is finishing before your
opponent,
During the later levels, you will have to
encounter some robots and other obstacles
which will do their best to stop you and
your opponent, therefore making it much
harder.
The moin change you will undoubtedly
notice in the game Is that you can lean up
against walls to dodge enemy fire. This Is a
simple but effective touch which gives you
an extra second to think about your next
move. Also, you can walk up and down stairs
and jump off platforms which add more of a
maze element to CE2.
Final word
Whether you thought Chaos Engine offered
enough to warrant a sequel at a full price I
can't say, but if you never hod the opportun-
ity to purchase the original then Chaos
Engine 2 must be placed at the top of your list
- ahead of anything else,
^ As with all
of Bitmap's
releases, the
graphics are
excellent
with smooth
animation,
making
Chaos
Engine a
pleasure to
play j
11
nils* mi
SYSTEM
preview
fter Team 17's Speris Legacy came
out, the need for a legend of Zelda
clone seemed to disappear.
However, Guildhall Leisure is trying
to get In on the act with its potential
Speris beater called Legends.
Legends was originallv designed by Krisalis.
its first game since, probably, those Man Ufd
games. Incidentally, about two years ago
Krisalis intended to publish it themselves but
then decided not to. While Legends was
knocking around, Guildhall Leisure was fast
becoming one of the leading Amiga software
houses and now the two have come together,
in perfect harmony,
As soon as you load the game up it has qual-
ity written all over it, just like it should from a
software developer who has gained much
respect from previous releases. If you've ever
played Legend of Zelda on the SNES or Speris
Legacy, you'll get an idea of how it looks and
plays, Basically, the Idea is to find some kind of
person who will be able to stop evil things hap-
pening to the world - the usual story really, On
the way there are various people willing to
point you in the right direction, and there are
others who either like to throw you off the scent
or just simply kill you.
In Speris Legacy you were in control of a little
sprite which looked remarkably like Blackburn
defender Colin Hendry, in Legends you are
placed In the capable hands of a little Red
Indian, a bit like Little Plum from the Beano,
and your first task In hand Is to find a weapon
to beat off the bad geezers. The first weapon
you will come across is, surprisingly, a bow and
arrow which will dispose of hostile guests within
a few seconds, With this you wilt be rewarded
by some huge hearts which will increase your
health,
There are plenty of little gifts you can find hid-
den In trunks and in various other places which
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The bow and arrow will b* the tiral
weapon you picfc up and will diaposa
of your onctrtles within seconds
Making up (he heart will rmpl+nl*h
your energy ami 1*1 you take on
harder enenrre*
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totem pair,
you |i*«d In
b* iUi fa win
those in Cuba
and Scouts -
God knows
why...
A breath of fresh air
There are a lot of comparisons between This
Speris Legacy and Legends but I think
Legends will have the edge if it manages to
maintain the quality shown throughout the
gome.
The introduction scenes are excellent and
cartoony, setting a more light-hearted game
which is a far better way to present It, Even
the music portrays o .jolly feel which will
undoubtedly inspire you to carry on ploying.
It's about time we came across a jolly plat-
form romp to steer us away from the techni-
cal side of Doom-type engines which are
forever hounding us. Legends could be the
breath of fresh air to change the ways of
software developers.
will increase your points total, amongst other
things.
The actual game maps are huge and will
take you hours to navigate, never mind com-
plete, but If you do happen to get lost, press-
ing function key ) will present you with o map
which is handy for guiding yourself to new
places.
When some helpful information pops up to
aid you in your quest, you will be presented
with a small blue box which will either contain
questions posed or information received from
a wise man or someone else.
Throughout the game you will regularly be
given tips or subtle hints which may give you
some ideas where to go or who to speak to
and by the time you've managed to
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it a m IM^M,,, Oh, If* on* of thmmt
Thm map shows raised ground aind hut*
■ill Dtrar thm placm which ia handy H
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complete the first level, you'll be worn out.
The character animation is nowhere near as
smooth as The Speris Legacy, but because
there are more frames in Legends, this is what
makes It a graphical delight.
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your possession and Ml file weapon % you have
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Legends is around 95 per cent complete and
some small tweaks ore going to be made
before it's released in the shops. Only then will
we see how Legends shapes up compared to
its Team 17 rival, but to me it looks like being
an excellent arcade adventure which will
present any standard of gamesplayer with a
challenge. Let's hope it maintains these
credentials in the final version,
When the final version decides to appear
you can be sure we'll give it a full review.
Watch this space
6 It's about
time we came
across a jolly
platform romp
to steer us
away from the
technical side
of Doom-type
engines.
Legends
could be the
breath of fresh
air to change
the ways of
software
developers 9
unit 1111
s
SYSTEM
hints & tips
By Andy Maddock
Simon
the Sorcerer
^B^ ' All
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BafoFV JWU *fi»rl Ih« gjm«, fiifce 4 good JUClf ill tA« mip
icrccn so you ftrtow whal this place Is
our first job is to pick up the magnet
from the fridge, and then take the
scissors from the drawer. Leave the
hut go to bar and talk to the wiz-
ards and they will send you looking
for a staff
Before leaving the hut. fake the matches
from the top of the fruit machine, and by using
the scissors on the dwarf you will then have a
piece of his beard
Go and find the Blacksmith where you can
pick up the object that lies on his workbench
and then head off into the woods, You wilt
eventually come across a barbarian with a
thorn stuck tn his foot. Talk to him and you con
then pull the thorn out for him. In return, fhe
barbarian will give you a whistle which you can
Try *"(* pick up auprthlng you Gmn, The things
fh»f Can tn (coded .it c.in usuntly bm UJ*d
Talk to everyone you possibly can mm thoy may
grv* yov *emm hamhr hint* on what to do mil
Although it's not
the most recent
adventure game,
some people still
need help, Here is
the first part..,
use later m the game, Before you leave, talk
to the hole about fossils and then find the
woodsmith.
Talk to the woodsmith until he gives you o
metal detector. Now, go outside the witches
house and move the well handle, take the
bucket and leave. Take the right direction at
the T junction on the way back, Talk to the tree
stump until if asks far some mahogany. You
must now go back to the bridge to talk to the
troll. He'll take the whistle off you and use it.
the barbarian will appear and remove the troll
from the bridge so you can walk by, and you
can pick up the placard to find the oaf. Talk to
the oaf about watering beans, return, then
pick up the beans from the heap and then
pick up the melon.
Now you must go and find the bard and use
Talk to this weird Hzard.fyp* nun (0 gam
&amo information about *orn*thrng
the melon tn the sousaphone. Go to the moun-
tains to find th© giant and use the sousaphone
and he will mess around with a tree, allowing
you to get to the other side. Now you must find
the screen on the map which contains some
fossils. Once you get there you must pick up
the rock.
Next, you need to visit the place on the map
surrounded by a blue circle, and use the metal
detector. Return to the blacksmith and use the
rock on his anvil. Return to the man In the hole
and give him the fossil. Now tell the bloke
about where the metal detector is.
Return to the blue circled place and you will
see the bloke digging away, Look at the dirt
and ttien pick up the ore which you must give
to the woodsmith, Go back to the blacksmith
and use the ore with the anvil and then give
the axe head to the woodsmith, Go and find
the druid's house. Pick up the ladder, enter the
house and pick up the cold remedy and Jar.
Go to the dragon's cave and use the rem-
edy on the dragon - now you can pick up the
extinguisher. Go back to the woodsmith and
fake the pin from the table and put out the fire,
Now open the woodsmith J s store and pick up
the mahogany. Go back to the tree stump
and talk about the mahogany and then get
the woodworm in your hat. Now It's time to go
to Rapunzel's castle and use the thing you
found on the blacksmith's table on the bell.
Move the bell end then pick up the hair -
after the magic you will have a pig, Use the
woodworm on the floorboards and use the
ladder in the hole, then go towards the tomb
and open it, Then repeat the process, pick up
the staff and return to the bar to present it to
the wizards.
Part 2
Now you must go to the low budget candy
house and use the repulser on the truffle
door and then enter. Pick up the smoke box
and ptak up the hat, Now go outside where
you can use the smokebox and the matc-
hes and pick up the wax left by the bees in
the hive. Now go back Into the bar. Talk to
the barman about drink and when he bends
over, use the wax on the barrel behind him.
He will then give you a voucher. Go outside
and pick up the barrel.
Find the owl and talk to It until ft drops a
feather, then go to the mine. Pick up the
rock outside and see that it says 'beer'. You
must use this password to get Into the mine -
wear the dwarf beard before though. When
you get in the mine, give the barrel to the
guard and he will reveal a key. Pick it up,
leave the room and enter the left-hand pas-
sage. Pick up the hook and use the key in
the door. Once inside, offer the guard the
beer voucher and ask for gems.
Leave the mines and travel to the cave,
'Use the hook on the boulder above it and
walk to the boulder. Use the magnet and the
rope with the hole three times,
Return to the village and give the bloke a
gem, Return to the bar and give your money
1o the wizards,
That's the end of this first instalment. We'll
be back soon with the final parts to put you
out of your misery,
r
You wilt momt urn* kind of trail nun
along thim *cr**n. Tr> net to uptmt hit
or that'll Jm tttm end of you
Thn gj>nl will sleep mway while you
«» pinch his bracelet Although, doot
forgot kids. It's wrong fo *tm*I!
Here* th* compost heap. Mmkr surm you
pick up tha o*«r» b*foj* you li«»
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AUGUST 1996-
Dave Cusick
examines a few
programs to
increase your
productivity
The
essentials
of life
^
When (■he Amiga team designed
Workbench 3.0 lhey no doubt
tried 10 make it ai friendly, power-
■■■ Ful and efficient as possible - and
to a large extent lhey succeeded, because few
■who have used ihe Amiga's GUI would deny that
il is one of fhe mosl configurable and easy-lo-use
interfaces in existence. However, lhat doesn'i
mean to say lhat it cannot be improved upon.
The obvious additions are things like Magic
Workbench and Magic User Interface, but there
are plenty of o)her programs which will prove
just as handy, and many of them have been
around a few yean. A few of the following god-
sends have appeared on Amiga Computing
coverdisks in ihe past, and if you can't find ihem
after rooting through your disk box then lhey will
certainly be available from good PD Libraries or
from Amine!
Take KingCon, which I believe is na longer
even under developmem. KingCon hos, for some
while now, been making the Shell a mare Flexi-
ble and usable system for Amiga owners every-
where. It introduces much needed features such
as a scroll bar to (he Shell window, and allows
you (o save the buffer to disk or cleat it at any
lime. It features filename, device name and com-
nana completion, so you could, for instance,
switch id C and type "Sett" ihen flight
Amiga+F, and KingCon would fill in the rest of
the SetKeyboard command.
You can also drop icons into ihe Shell win-
daw, whereupon KingCon w<\\ magically moke
tlwir lull path name appear in inverted comma*,
"MS*
ilWfcMJfcHi'S."
MM '-.-- MM Ml
3
Drag your shell window
into thv '90* wj(h KingCon
The Shell can even be Iconified. KingCon will rev-
olutionise the way you use the Shell. In fact, the
only problem with this marvellous program is a
purely cosmetic one - if doesn't appear to agree
with Urouhack, so if you are funning both togel-
her you may notice that part of the downward
scroll lean an ihe Shell window ij hidden by 'he
resizing icon.
Dimensions
Next up is PowerSnap. This lovely commodity by
N>co Francois, creator of PPmore and a multitude
of other invaluable Amiga utilities, adds a whole
new dimension to the Amiga clipboard- Using
Powersnap you can cut and paste characters
between oil sorts- of different programs., It doesn't
quite work perfectly wilh every application in
existence, but it so enhance; the basic, under-
powered clipboard function that you'll never be
able to live wllhout Powersnap again, Another
handy patch, and one which is among si several
included in do-i1-o.ll commodities like MCP these
days, is CacheFonl. Ai anyone who has been
using o hard drive for iome lime will know, it's
very easy to accumulate loads of fonts over a
lime, Opening the Fonts: directory con then
become a frightening prospect as there will be
on extremely lengthy wait before the files, inside
are displayed
One option is simply to delele fonts left, right
and centre but this could be problematic |wfiich
fonts are required to use such-and-such a pro-
gram?), and it seems a little drastic. A far more
attractive proposition is CacheFonl, which works
by creoling a file containing a list of everything
in ihe Fonts; directory which is used whenever
you take a peek there This saves a huge amount
of time. If you're going to add new fonts you will
need to update the CacheFont file every ihdw and
then, but lhat's a small price la pay for the
phenomenal speed increase.
CacheFonl isn't the only essenlial which is
now to be found in MCP - AssignWedge is a
iirr arly invaluable patch which Alien Design
hos included in its superb commodity. If you com-
monly encounter problems when installing soft-
ware to o hard drive because you have forgotten
to make the necessary assigns in ihe user-startup
file, then AssignWedge is the answer to your
prayers. Il allows you to make the assign on the
spot, using a file selector, so you won't have Id
Fiddle: around in a text editor ano ihe" 'eboot |usi
to try Dut that new game or utility.
Icon see clearly now
Have you ever wanted to update lots of icons on
your bard drive but been frustrated by the long-
winded approach taken by konEdit? kontdit is one
of the feast useful toots supplied with Workbench
3, and there are some excellent replacements
around. Perhaps the best is iceman, which allows
you to design ridiculously large and colourful icons,
provides a host of handy drawing toots, and has
more options than tcanfdit has had hot dinners - or
something.
Serious iconophites will also find they cannot live
without a utility called konimoge by Martin Lama,
When run, konimoge creates a little AppWindow.
Onto this yov con drop a source icon and then one
or more target icons. Iconlmage will copy the
image to the target icons without overwriting any
tooltypes, and without a great degree of messing
o found on your behalf. If you've got a drawer full
of files all begging for identical icons, you need
look no further than konlmage.
IcoitEftil is among?
the tirsi
Workbench Tools
jfou ihauld replace
- teonimt p*r1orrt>*
the Jab tar mot*
effectively
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
m
Paul Overaas
outlines a way of
altering Amiga
DOS file
protection bits
L > Changing
Kj-the guard
part 2
nt
Losi month I outlined the purpose} of the
file profedian bils and explained thai
programs can obtain flog stale infor-
IHHI motion from a file's FilelnfoBlock There
are actually two ways of doing ihi;: You can
open the file and then perform an EnomineFHfi
function using the file handle relumed by the
Openj) routine, or you can obtain a lock on
the file using the DOS library's Lock|] funciion
and then use Examined to s* 1 up the
FilelnfoBlock information.
Either way, it is (he responsibility of the pro-
gram 1o allocate space For the FilelnfoBlock
structure and here, a variety of approaches
are passible: Firstly, you can include simple
static ds.b declaration in your program to
reserve a suitable amount of space (the struc-
ture size is defined as fib_5IZE0F in the do&.r
include file|. In this case it's necessary to make
sure the structure is long word aligned and with
Devpac you do this by including a cnop 0,4
directive before the slrucfure allocation like this:
FIB ds.b fibJHE
Another option is to use the exec library's
AllacMemJJ function to allocate memory,
releasing it with a FreeMemj] call after use
I'his automatically produces a long word
aligned memory block), The third approach is
1o use the DOS liljrqiry AllocDoiObjed() func-
tion coupled with a DO$_FIFj flag to indicate
that we want to allocate o FiEe-lnfoBloelt slruc-
lure (this flog is also defined in the dos.i
AmlgaOQS' Hat
command
being 1 used to
cbvcfc that 1Mb
mmllij
ci.implf woriii
.UMIr^JTBCll #^rTtt
include file). When this latter approach is used
a corresponding FreeDosObjecri) call must be
used la release the FilelnfoBlock after use.
Once an AmrgaDOS initialised FilelnfoBlock
is available the protection flags con be read
and the DOS library's SeJProt«iion.i|l routine
used to alter the state of the Flags, The example
provided on the coverdisk this month does just
this. It's a simple Shell-based program which
toggles the delete flag of a specified File using
the file lock + Examine^) approach.
Because routines like Lock(| will foil if non-
exi stent files are specified, it's best to structure
the program in such a way that Examine!),
SetProteclionfl, or UnLocklJ are never per-
formed on files that were never found in the first
place. This, of course, is just matter of testing
Command line loop
You'll find the source code for the example on
disk as the fife fibhs. The f unable form, need-
less to say, is sailed fib J. fry running if from
the Shell using this iart of command line:
fibl 4titepithrn*it>
ono* use the AmigaDQS List command to exam-
ins ihe state of the delete flog. Bach time you
run the program on a given file the state at the
flag, will change.
You'll notice, incidentally, that the example
uses a short loop to copy the filename
supplied on the Shell command line into a
buffer, For those of you who haven't met
command fine access before, here is a brief
explanation of why this has to be done. When
a program * farts from the Shell It gets provi-
ded with two bits af information, firstly,
register aO points to the first character of the
parameters that have been supplied on the
command fine, Secondly, register dO contains o
count of the number of characters present.
The command fine inform prion is actually
stored in a private Shell buffer area and the
end of the line is terminated with a linefeed
character. As it stands, the filename that we
could read directly from the command fine is
of no use {because it isn't null terminated}, and
since, strictly speaking, programs shouldn't
make alterations to the text stored in the
Shed's own private buffer, we have to make a
duplicate copy.
The dbra leap I've used does \ust that -
it copies the filename an the command line
into the program's own buffer replacing
the terminal linefeed with a NULL as it
does so.
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bufUi,dl
tilenm
lai'tq
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itttfjbtuu
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beq.s
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iddrm af
tilt i n-c bleu
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F1I,»D
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bchg.L
ifiBB mm, it
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fetrff»r,d1
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Lis-tinp 1: The miin cotlm fragment
from this month'* example
the relurn values of ihe various furvclions and
branching accordingly if things have not gone
well. You'll be able to see how I've done this
from the code fragment showrv in listing 1.
Since SetProlectiaH) requires the new 32-bit
protection bit mask 1o be in register 62, I've
chosen to copy rhe protection bils into d2 as
soon as Examined returns by loading the
base address of my FilelnfoBlock structure into
register aO and using indirect addressing like
this:
let F1M
Mvi.l fifc_PfCtl{t1ar>(»0),,42
Changing the state of the Hag is easy. We
just use the 680x0 bchg instruction to invert ihe
slate of ihe delete flag:
bchj.l
»F1«UEIETE,«
The 6fl0x0 bset and bclr instructions, which
could be used to explicitly set or clear a pro-
tection flag, would, of course, be used in
exaclly the same way.
Function
docs
As well as the example code ifseif
you II also find details of all the rvne-
fj'ots fhot hove been used on the
coverdisk, They're stored in the file
functions aug°6.eb and to view them I
you II to need load the tile into the
EasyBaseAC utility (see the additional
coverdisk readme notes for more
details,
13
Amiga Computing
AUGUST
Paul Overaa
delivers some
help identifying
ARexx port
names
» T V
Port of
II
Like most ARismx users, my system, occa-
sionally throws up 'Host environment nol
found' errors when i run scripts.. In all
WMkW such case; it's either because the pro-
gram my script is irying lo lalk to isn't up and run-
ning, or it's running bul using a different ARexx
port name for communications ihon the one I had
specified. In the latter cose, this might be due to a
Hyping slip *n my script, but it could also be due to
an error in the documentation of the program
being used- Port names are case sensitive and in
my time IVe come across quile a few utilities
whose docs have given Ihe port names using ihe
wrong case.
Whatever me cause, a good Firs! step in such
cases is lo get a lis) of all currently available public
ports, and an my system I ha« an ARexx Function
key ssl up thai produces such a list whenever ihe f 2
key is pressed. It's done using (he rexjcsupport
library ShowUslO function and the code required is
surprisingly straightforward. Firstly, we check to see
whether Ihe rewsupport library is already active or
nol (installing it if necessary). Then ShowLisl(| is
used lo piece the delivered port names into a string
coiled portS, and finally, a 'doewl' loop is then
used to separate ond display ihe names on screen.
In order lo gel on ARejw sctipi lied to a function
key you need lo use the FKey tool. Select the New
Key gadget and enter ihe name of the Function key
|F2 in the cose I'm idking aboui| . Then choose 'Run
ARexx Script' From the command ho* and enter the
rome of ihe script to be run. Finally, use the ''Saw
Defined Keys' Project menu option to save ihe
created Function key definition la disk,
ll's atwoys useful to name the script nftef the key
itself so it is easily recognisable. My F2 key script,
for instance, is called F2,rejw. ll's aiso best to save
scripts in the mac directory (usually assigned 10
People often complain that scripts which
work perfectly well when executed from a
Shell window fait to work once they are
linked to a function key. The reason h that
script i it arte d via a function key do not
automatically have anywhere to tend their
output. The solution is simple -any script
run via a function key must open o suitable
window itself. It's easy enough to do using
ARexx' s Qpenf} function in conjunction with
a window specification and the cade will
normally look something like thin
call Bp;nluind»H/ien:1OQ/ZtiOi l 4llO. , 20ni < F2l(t»'.
Htt/cUst']
>■; Hi
I* F2.r*» V
LIKFEEIc'Si'i; TMi'M'i
TOTls'htLls wu («arf...'|[LF
nm-'ttta RETUfiJl <o tlost rindu rial finish**! 1
mmjU= , tati:WimtWHWfi1,ty... Po-'ts, ListrclDtc'
if "Slieyt'L'/riKiupiior t.Libury')
[kin d»
till. JHdLib( l rnisu&pnrt.lilirirj , ,rJ,-30 ( li>
ni
WftMlMUltCM
call Oj«n(Kinda*,yJN3dt_*erl
oil UritflnfuindDHjEKTlJ
dn t*1 to Mo'ds(p-grt»i
till Urit(ln-:Niroon,'*Bi;k(ird(Flirlt,i]:|LllltfEEb)
tnd
till yrittLn{a1ndmi,TExt2)
He4dch(wtndok,l) ," soak Input and quit */
nil
UmOna U * port limting wript that can 1m lied In a function ke r
Workbenchis) because such scripts will then
olwoys be Found by ihe system. Do note, inciden-
tally, that for FKey function definitions to bs usoble
the FKey commodity needs to be actually running.
The easiest way oF ensuring this is to drag Ihe FKey
icon, or a copy of I, into your WBStartop drawer -
thai way the utility will always be active once your
system has booted I
Ciwl L Lp , fH>|n
pNM
mmLrjt
V4t-« /tmbir
■C_H"
U_D!r»rlV
rr>ii imim I- ■:■■■•
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|Tt|fct<l»-. 1 Itormru*
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fcilWHH'.i 1 lltin
4 *T - . ■ |H,I " *- »- V
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p l< twa. diAl at ym-t
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■ ii "r
m
Topical displays
produced by Hlf*
month's eijitipli
scripts
It 5 oho important that output from the
A COMMON 5LIP
program actually gets sent to this window,
and to do this you need to use Writelntf ae
Writechf} functions rather than the ARexx
SAY instruction. For example rather than
writing:
mi ttordtpord/i)
ft if necessary to use something like:
cull VrtteLft(iiJr>ddu,llgrd[|>«rt),i))
You'll get an idea of how ail this works in
practice from this month's examples. You'll
find two scripts on the coverdisk. F2,rexx
produces the part lists I've been talking
about, and FS.rexx uses the Mime Showlistf}
function to produce details of the system
libraries in use. Tie the examples to function
keys as I've explained and experiment.
Who knows - when you see how easy
you may well be encouraged to get some of
your own scripts running in this way.
Don't forget, incidentally, that function
keys have many advantages over icons and
menus. They're always available and It's far
easier (quicker) to hit a function key than ft
is to grab hold at the mouse and select a
menu item or doubleclick on an icon.
What's more, function keys, unlike icons, do
not take up valuable Workbench screen
space. 1
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
EOj
Dave Cusick takes a
ook at some of the
programs that
Web Surfers can't J
afford to be without
The beauty of ihe Web is lhot it presents
□n attractive and appealing side of rhe
Nsl,. li .successfully Wends text, graphics
□nd sound together in true 'mulli media'
buzzword Fashion, to the extenl that various Web.
sifes contain large picture, sound and video
archives |ust waiting lo be downloaded. The only
prabfam is rhat, on their own, most Web browsers
simply don'1 know what to do wilh all the different
file formats ihgt ore out there,
Whal's required it o method of deciding which
format a p/ven file ii so thot the file can be wnl to
an external program for viewing. Most graphical
browsers have a window [probably called
'External Vieweri' or something similar) through
which the user tells the browser whal lo do with
any given fifeiype. If you've never taken p look at
this window before, now would be a good lime to
do so. Ir. 'Browse i> can be found under ihe
General settings window. Incidentally, if you ore a
Voyager 1 .0 user, unfortunately you can't config-
ure external viewers as easily - bui nevertheless,
same af me programs I am about to mention could
still prove invaluable.
There are four columns to the i&rowse External
Viewer window, with the leftmost simply listing the
type of file, the Mime column listing the extensions
with which to identify the filefype. and Ihe two
right-hand columns telling iBrowse what lo do with
the File. Things will probably be set up with
Utilities like Play 16 can miaa w tiff If be ui«rf
with Oo-lt-mfl Apptcons such a* CJanicfpon
Surfing
Essentials!
Multiview as the viewer for fhe majority of file-
types. Ihere are. however, some superb viewers
which are well worth using in preference to
Multiview.
ftobably the most useful is Play 16, which hos
been featured on the Amiga Computing coverdisk
in rhe past and ii available from Amine! too. Once
you've downloaded and installed this excellent
sample player, you can configure ifirowse io use it
very easily. Click on the audio/" line, and mgke
sura the Action specified ii Eternal Viewer. The
Mime text gadget underneath should contain 'wqV
and W, You con then use ihe file selector next to
the Viewer line lo locate Ploy 16 on your hgrd
drive. In the Argument* box simply specify "%f .
Mow whenever you selecl a Wav or Au sample on
a Web page. Play 16 will be colled and you'll be
able to hear these samples directly, wilhout hpving
to convert ihem into the Amiga aSVJC fonmot
For image viewing, there pre plenly of pro-
grams which work more quickly lhan Multiview
and can produce better results. I use Viewtek for
viewing GIF image* ond FastJPEG For viewing
Jpegs. Both of these programs are availoble on
Aminet, and configuring ifirowse to use th-ero is
□gain extremely straightforward. There ore also a
couple of Mpeg players around, although you'll
AM JG AS ONLY
The first Amiga-specific Internet provider in the
UK hat recently been hunched. Wi tenet sup-
plies access through U-Nef, and offers what it
describes as 'A comprehensive suite of soft-
ware' including programs to handle maii,
news, FTPing and Web browsing, ail of which
can be launched ham a central control window,
total call access is currently available for
oround SO per cent of the country and Wirenet
even provides some free Web space in case
you're feeling creative.
The annual subscription rate is CIIS and
there is a one-off connection fee of £14 (includ-
ing VAT). If you want to find out more, yau can
ring Neil Bothwick on 01925 79WI& or email
him at info£wirenet.u~net<com, Wirenet also
has a Web site ef http://www.u-net.cotn/
-wirenet/index.html.
\\m
Configuring the
Exlern.il ITfewwB
in JBrawsa
need quite a powerful machine to take M
advantage of them.
Going off ai a bit of a tangent, if you are lucky
enough to have a fas! Amiga and plenty of band
width, iherv you could well be interested in
UnRealAudio. As ihe name suggests, this isn'1 an
Amiga veriion of ihe currently fashionable and
highly impressive RealAudio real-time sound sys-
tem, but il is a passable imitation, If uses a codec
called GSM, which is not as widely used on ifie
Iniernel bui can slill be found with a liltfe rummag-
ing. UnRealAudio really requites a 66030+
Amiga and a 28.8k+ modem, a combination
which alas I don't have |yet.. ) but I am reliably
informed ihe results are not bod at all. If you're
planning on irying ii out, you will also need a cou-
ple of other small programs, which can be found
on Aminet, and which you will find details of in the
UnRealAudio documentation With a bit of fid-
dling, UnRealAudio could probably be set up lo
play GSM encoded files as a mime type diredy
from iBrowse too.
Of course, the Final essential for the serious
surfer is a decani efliaii program, which can be
launched whenever yau click on a Mailto: link. Full
Maillo: support is not yel implemented in the pre-
release demo ol iBrowse, although other browsers
such as Voyager and AWeb already have scripds
available to launch moiling programs. For the
moment, if you're an iBrowse user you'll have to
make do with flicking across to your mailer and
copying out (he e-mail address, ond looking for-
ward to the release of a fully finished, all-singing,
all-dancing iBrowse in the near future.
Hello there
If ya 1 , ynmenls. tuggestjons or qu
you can conrocr me at dove§dcn, demon c
or da 1 --;
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Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
Dave Cusick offers
someadvice for
those using their
Amiga to
produce newsletters'
Whilst il ii marWIgui that home com-
puters lite the Amiga make it possi-
ble for almost anybody to produce
1MB their own newsletters, ifne results
can often be less than stunning simply because the
aeator has rat put a great deal of thought into the
design. A small amount of planning can definitely
help produce something more impressive.
Perhaps rhe most important point is that you
should hy to cgnjlruci mufti-page documents in a
coherent style. A lilfle variety in byout rs obviousry
gang to be necessory in order to mate HKe docu-
ment visually appealing, but if ihe pages have few
common elements then reader j will be put off.
&efore you start laying out text and piclures, it
mighi well be worth designing one or two tern-
plate pages which you can then subtly vary for
each page in the document, What you are aiming
to create is a recognisable look far your publica-
tion. Decide, for instance, whether or net body
rem wiil be justified. Decide whether or no! new
paragraphs wiJI be indented. Decide how many
columns a typical page will nave (there's nothing
worse than a newsletter that keeps switching from
three columns to two and back againf. Once
youVe made those decisions, stick by Ihem
throughout your document.
A pitfall mony occasional desktop publishers
seem to foil into - and some not jo occasional
ones too, who ought to know better - is thai of
producing what amounts lo a glorified fist of fonts.
Having a gigantic array of fonts at your disposal
ps a definite plus, but it certainly does not mean
that they must all be used together within any
given document. Mixing lots of different typefaces
will inevitably produce cluttered and confused
results. Try to stick to two or three styles at most on
any one poge, and indeed throughout ihe docu-
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sehoot newsletter
ment. Instead af introducing new fonts, try using
slightly larger point sizes, or underlined or itali-
cised letters. Again ihough. don't go aver ihe top
because the more things you attempt lo mate
stand out, the less impact highlighted lent will
have,
You should also fry lo ovoid chopping and
changing between serif and sons-serif fonts. In gen-
eral, serif fonts (the ones with foncy little bits at the
top ond bottom of certain tenets, such as Times},
produce more readable body text, although the
text you are now reading is an example of how
certain sanserif fonts [without ihe fancy bits) can
be equally effective Headlines, on the other hand,
have o greater impact if you use sons-serif fonts .
Once the basics are in place you con create
pages quietly and easify by simply importing the
text and graphics and tweaking then to produce
the perfect page. At this stage you should keep an
eye out far orphans and widows, those odd words
or sentences siranded at the top or bottom of o text
column oil on their own. They spoil the look of any
page and can be avoided simply by removing,
inserting or repositioning a little bit of text some-
where, resiling a column slightly, or scaling a pic-
ture differently,
just a couple of final points 1q bear in mind if,
like Tiony omaleur newsletter designers do, you
intend photocopying you* newsletter, firstly, you
should ovoid large areos of solid black. Whilst
these might look magnificent when printed by your
trusty inkjet, ihey will appear streaky ond unartroc-
livie when photocopied. Secondly, colour pho-
tographs rarely photocopy well either. To gel
around this limitation you could use black and
white Film, or you could scan in piclures and con-
vert them into high contrast block ond white
images - or alternately you could jusl opt to avoid
photographs wherever possible. You might consid-
er using a lillle clip an instead, preferably in a
scalabfe formal or, foiling that, at least ato size
where the lines will not appear jagged. Again,
though, don't go over the top. A few well chosen
and relevant images will look a ihousand times
better than, a multitude of inappropriate pictures
splashed haphazardly across a page.
Wedding pictures
Artworks has just released a new package of clip art with
the theme of Weddings which may well appeal to enter-
prising invitation designers out there. The images were
created by professional artists and are designed to look
good whether printed in totour or grey scales. The quality
of the images is extremity high, and the five disks tome
with a booklet containing hints on using the artwork to
the best effect and a complete printout of alf the imoaes
for quick reference.
The images are available in Adobe Type 88 fPS format
compatible with Pagestream, Wordworth, and final
Writer, or in ProDraw format for Pagetetter, ProPage and
Pagestream, The complete package casts £19,9$.
Artworks can be contacted on 01469 5881 3&, or o-maiied
at artwarksuk&aoi.com.
It might not look
like much in tour
colours, but an
paper Arfworkr'
Wedding clip art
I* m rpal treat
Amiga Computing
AUGUST J 996
Phil South continues
with how to plan
and execute an
Amos program
project
Back to
basics
Last month we lolked oboul interface
design and I said that Hhia month we'd
be flashing out some of ihe code we
^H would need 10 use to oeiiYote our mler
fflce design and moke tl sensiiive to mouse
elides. The pseudo code we started with was like
this;
star;
initiitisi
VirlioLii
itt up the
Itreen tilt, ;olou*s ft:.
Load the intt'fitr grtphic
start the
nunc
= tar: lair
orqgrji Loop
Check lor button kits
if Cher* Is i hit then activate
hit
mbraiitini
if rot continue
10 licl t<
5 tar: cf ijin progr.il Loop
llit tub ram -.re
«»tch button vas it 1
wilt button scund to jive 'eedia:k
Load rlOSIII orifjhic or periori
;hg-
it* Mtior
-e-j'n ::
tlin Loos
To get the interface sorted out, we first have Id
create [he boxes on the screen, as we said last
•si.e:
The hoses on the screen con ihen be saved off
as art IFF file with Save Iff "whatever. iff", and
you can then use this file to storl work in Dpaint
or Photogenic* to nvoke your interface. But ihis
file can also form the basis of your interface
coda-.
The coordinates for the boxes are ihe descrip
Ifon of where the boxes ore on the screen, so
you con use these numbers lo tell the Amiga
where ihe boxes are and sense for mouse elicits
in these zones. To create mouse zones you first
need to set ihem up, ihen write code to access
them when clicked on by the mouse. Lei's open a
Scrttr- Doer, D,4*C,!!6,11, Hires
■: . ■ B
Now we have a blank black screen. So first
we reserve ihe zones we woni to use, ond in this
example we want to use 5 so we type:
Rfstruc lent 5
Now we use the texl from ihe old box drawing
program and edit ii to create the zones:
Set Iwi 1, tO, 170 To 10, ZOO
Set lone i,!i f 1TJ t6 17G,fM
Sit iMi 3,1S5,17D To 2 n-3 , 2 DO
Set lone 4,275,170 To M,m
Sit lane *,363,17D To 444, 2M>
Forgetting, of course, ihe first box os this is the one
we will be using later 1d show pictures of products,
So now we ha^e five zones on ihe screen. We can
either bod ihe picture we've created using the box
picture we created before or, if you haven't done
lhat yei r you can draw some boxes on the screen
to give you an idea where the zones are, like so:
hi 10,170 is 10,200
B«i JS,170 Tu ITUW
Bci 1S5
17D To
m,m
Bsi 275
1TD To
353,230
1st 3t5
r lT0 To
H(,2C8
This is just a re-run of ihe previous lines of code
from (he bos drawing program. Okay, having
done lhat we can now do the moin program loop:
JtiUIUtf:
Built
.UvUSECHiCt
IM
'*■ prcgrji goes
ht«
tt*
Citt
JULtNuW
Nat very inspiring i; il? Just a loop wilh a call to
ihe mouse subroutine Okay, let's make ii actually
do something, Firstly, give ihe routine a label so
we can jump lo \b
JDUSEtHEtl!
and then we can sense me mouse clicks. Assign
the currenl mouse zone and the mouse button
status to a variable:
2'flouit tone
C=Houn Ctitt
then test those variables every lime around the
loop to see if they are bolti true:
Follow (f» code jnd
your intarlaea will
Soak this
If they are false, ihe program jusl goes merrily
around the loop again wilhoul triggering any-
thing. If il's true, though, you get a bang df
boom, depending on which bulton you press.
These are just noises I put in ihere to give you
some feedback as to what you've pressed and
to demonstrate thai the program is working. In a
later version of ihis program we'll be substituting
another routine for those noises. Lastly there is a
RETURN statement lo lake you back lo the main
loop.
NEXT MONTH
The program is starting to come together, so all
we need 1 now ore some bits of music, some
graphics and 1 sound' effeds, and perhaps even a
stort-yp and exit screen. Now we can sense
mou'se dicks on our interface, what do we wan)
to happen when a key is pressed? The sound of
o burton clicking perhaps? And do we wont the
pictures of the products to occupy a screen
above the buttont and a text description to
appear to the tight? What about music? WW
about o little voice-over? Find out where we go
from here next month.
Write stuff
If you hove any other Amos programs
or queries about Amos, please write to
the usual address, which is: Phil South,
Amos Column, Amiga Computing,
Media House, Adlington Pork,
Macclesfield SK10 4NP. Please send
routines on an Amiga disk with notes
on how the program works on paper,
not as text files on the disk- Make the
routines short enough to appear in
print, i.e. no more than about 30-40
lines of code, and if possible moke
mem use no external graphics. If they
can't be used without them then be
sure to provide them on the disk in
native IFF format, and the some goes
for sound files.
Amiga Computing
AUGUST I 996
This month Paul
Overaa takes a
beginners' eye
look at the world
of Midi
u Midi -
What it's
all about
espile more thon a few recent musi-
cal hiccups in ihe Amiga world,
we've had an increase in new users
looking for Midi help wiihin the
pages of Amiga Computing. Many, it seemi,
have bought their machines second hand and
this suggests thai, despile the fad some users
have chosen 1a desert hhe Amiga, for every par-
son ihoi has left... a new (and enthusiastic!
Amiga u»r has arrived. This, month il seemed
like a good idea Jo take advantage of ihe hope-
fully temporary lull in the arrival of new music
products and provide, for fhe benefil of these
newcomers, a few delails aboul who! Midi
actually is!
In shoM, Midi is o communications syslem
designed to allow musical equipment from any
number of different manufacturers to J 1alk' lo
each other using digital messages. Amongjl
olher things, it has encouraged fhe develop-
ment and use of o piece of software known as
Ihe sequencer which is able to read, store, edit
and replay (he messages generaled when
Midi^bosed musical instrument ore used.
All aboard
Assuming you already have an Amiga, oil
you'll need to gel aboard the Midi bandwagon
is a sequencer program, a Midi interface, and
a keyboard synthesizer! Yew may, if Ihsy were
nol supplied wiih your synthesizer or Midi inter-
face, afso need one or two connecting leads.
These are called Midi leads and can be pur-
chased for a few pounds from almost all com-
puter and music shops. You'll find plenty of
Midi interfaces advertised (from abool £20
upwards), and they are quite simple pieces of
hardware which plug into the Amiga's serial
port, thereby providing the fig hi physical
connedians for linking up Midi equipmenl.
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Sequencers vary enormously in fhe options they
provide bul all will let you record, ploy back
and edit Midi dala. You will, for example, be
able to add and delete notes, cul and paste
fragments of music, change key, and improve
the liming of ihe pieces of music you record
lusing so called quantisation options). Many
sequencers adopt a lape recorder-sfyla
Approach and the analogy is a good one
because, conceptually, a sequencer is very
much like o multhtrock lape recorder. The mam
difference is that digital daia is stored ralher
Getting connects
Whatever Midi synthesizer you get it will hove
at least two 5-pin DIN sockets The one marked
M'tdilnis where the synth receives its Midi data,
that marked Midi-Out is where data is transmit-
ted. Some rimes you'll also find o Midi-Thru soc-
ket and this provides a duplicate of whatever is
being received at the Midi-in terminal. Linking
together a three-piece system is usually easy:
Connect your Midi interface to the Amiga's serial
port; take one Midi lead from the Midi Out of the
synthesiser to the Mldi-ln of the Midi interface
(this will be the had that, via the Midi interface,
carries data ham the synthesiser to the
sequencer program}; connect a second cable
from the Midi Out of rfjp .Midi" interface fa ffie
MtdMn terminal of the synthesiser (it it this lead
that carries information from the sequencer back
to the synthesizer); and switch on, food 1 your
sequencer, and you'll be ready to start.
Once your nMrdi system is up and running
you'll not only be able to create and play your
own songs but will be able to purchase ready
made song arrangements fas Midi files) thai can
be loaded into your sequencer and played. For
this latter use, inddentoHy, a GM synthesizer is
essential because almost ail Midi files sold
nowadays assume that a GM sound set is being
used!
than audio sounds. Whichever sequencer you
choose (here will doubtless be an inlrodudory
lutoriol in the manual and you should read, and
work through, that maleriol al the earliest
opportunity.
Synthesizers are electronic insttuments which
con mimic the sounds of other inslrumenls such
as violins, organs, and drums. There ore hun-
dreds of differeni types of symhs available |as
you'll realise if you tab a visit to your local
music shop), but the good news is lhal even ihe
cheapest models can sound good. Try to get o
synth lhal is General Midi |GM) compalibfe
because this wil' mean ihe Synth will have a
standardised set of sounds built into it.
Pressure sensitive
One thing you will not get with □ low-priced
synthesizer will be a keyboard which can sense
how hard the keys have been pressed. Noies
will be on or off but this, unless you spend a lot
of money on a 'touch sensitive keyboard', is
something you fflusl Jive with
A number of synths, namely ihose designed
for home and non-professionol use, do hove
amplifiers and speakers built in. Many synlhe-
sizers, however, do not, so have tD be connec-
led ta a separate amplifier/speaker system in
order to produce audible sounds. For home,
low volume use yau can normally use your
home stereo syslem.
Amiga Computing
AUGUST 1996
Steve White
demonstrates the
importance of
multimedia
design
It's
the game
Last month I talked oboul typefaces or fonts
and this lies in nicely wild this month's
article - multimedia design. So what is
■■ multimedia design?
Aj an Amiga owner, you wilt come foes to face
wi|h multimedia design every day. Multimedia is
the creation of graphics that can be manipulated
by a user, more often referred la as an interface',
Obviously, Workbench applications use gadgets
and windows, bui computer games always have
some kind of selection interface. It may be a far cry
from 'ondscapes and animation bui it i; an essen-
tial pari of design in the computer age, arid learn-
ing how to design interfaces could even create you
an inlet into the computer entertainment industry
Designing interfaces for games is never a simple
case of slapping a few burtons cut a page. I" is
□bout maintaining the mood of the game and pro-
viding a clear and concise frcntend for the use*,
The aim is to moke the interface as attractive as
possible wilhaut confusing or annoying the player.
As wilti all forms af design, (he best place to start is
Atway* kaap a
work page will*
all your
interlace and
gam* mtmin^pttr.
That w.-iy, If ymt
mako a mi*\ak.m
yeu wwil have
to 90 back to
square en*
Attributes
WVCtpOITO
Special
at the storybaand. You may decide to skip me story ■
board stage of your design but I guarantee yau will
regret il late/ - ii's a great deal easier to rub our
pertcil than to have to erase pixels.
Draw your interface on paper first and you wil
save yourself precious lime al the computer. Don'i
attempt ta start your work before you are happy
wirh ihe storyboard. With the staryboard complete
you then need to create a suitable palette. This isn't
easy because you have to maintain a mood and
keep the colours consisted wilh the rest of the
game It's probably a good idea to choose a series
of colour shades as opposed to single colours, and
in my experience it's for easier to work with fewer
colours man il is wilh lots.
Elements
Wilh most interface designs there are invariably
IwG elements which make up the basic front-end -
■he backdrop and the selectors. The backdrop is
self explanatory and the selectors ar$ the various
buttons, menus and text that the user selects in order
to move around the frantemi
More and mare computer game artists ore going
for subtle backgrounds in iheir interface design., The
MagicWB Icon enhancer kit coniains some Superb
Designing
graphic* tor
computer
game* can
pnj wo very
rewarding -
you may a van
secure your.
aert ■ carter in
thm computer
*ntmrtairjm+nt
iihTui try
examples of subtle backdrops such as marble,
wood, r«k and space. As you are effectively creat-
ing a multimedia environment subtle backdrops
are excellent for this type of work.
The obvious alternative is to create busy looking
backdrops bui the danger with this type is ttwjt they
very often dutter ihe interface and drawn the selec-
tors, which are essentially ihe most imporianl
element
There are two other options you can employ
wirh backdrop design and one is to use a single
colour backdrop which is easy 1o create and fairly
safe. The other is to create an image indicative of
the game subject matter but to re-sample it with
only a few colours of a single shade. If you con do
this with a real life scan, me effect will look even
more impressive as well as saving you time-
consuming and often painful work,
You should also understand lhat using a high
resolution with respect 10 the palette size is, in most
coses, not practical far computer gomes, The less
cofours you use the faster your interface will be
and, more lhan likely, the better it will look. If you
are looking for inspiration, just load up your
favourite computer game and Oik yourself what it is
you like about the frontend.
The right image
If you have decided to create selectors with
graphic imagery remember that you wilt
need to keep the images as clear and obvi-
ous as possible. Using text is dearly not a
problem but using images to represent
options is nor easy.
The images have fa be good enough to
moke the user feel comfortable using them
and that he or she actually realises the func~
Irons they represent. As you can tee from
the picture, the four control selector buttons
below the Aces High title clearly represent
either joystick or keyboard 1 contra/.
However, for the four main selectors at the
TIM JnJvrfac* or trgnt-vncl ta m aama muil be good
enough to iti*k# thm uter want ta continue further
bottom half of the interface I opted for text-
hosed selectors because f decided that too
many graphic image* would detract from
the overall design.
You will alto notice that the actual selec-
tor buttons fthe circular buttons) are clearly
marked either on or off, so there really con
be no mistake as to which option is selected
and which it not.
Remember to keep a work page contain-
ing ail the elements of your interface. That
way, if you do manage to make a mistake or
decide to alter an element of the design you
will have an original copy to fall back on.
Amiga Computing
AUGUST J 996
Steve While explains
how you can
create stunning
applications in
B itz Basic 2
blitzed
Welcome to this, me first inslafment
of the Amiga Comp.s'i"g £ i";
Basic 2 tutorial. The aim of this
■■■ tutorial is not Id teach you the Blitz
Basic language but to demonstrate how 10 imple-
ment commands in order Id create a fully work-
ing Workbench application.
The application we will be building is called
BOOTit and will allow the user to disable pro-
grams from the WBStortup drawer before
Workbench boohs. Not only rhis. it will feature a
user-friendly GadTooli interface as well as plenty
of other useful options..
In order to fallow and use rhis tutorial you will
need Bliti Basic 2 Vernon 2. 10, Workbench 2.0
or above, as well as access to the user com-
mand*, I expect you are already using version
2.10 of Blitz Basic 2 and have a fundamental
under landing of the basic [excuse the pun] com-
mands, for those a' yog who have a coverdisk
version of Blitz bosk 2, 1 recommend you regis-
ter for me latest version immediately- this tutorial
will network for you otherwise.
While I will be explaining how lo build an
application in Bliti Bosk 2, I will also be taking
lime out where necessary la provide you with
hints and tips to get me most out of pogrom mi ng
with Blitz, as well as useful contact* you might
be interested in to find out more information
regarding this excellent but poorly supported
programming language. Before you start any
Han i i x «;?
conttn l&C >
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you will be creating
witl allow fmi to
disable and enable
program* in thr
WBSl.trlup dr-iivcr
When Workbench
boot.
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Programming in Bliti Batie £ can be pfohltrrti.itic at
rimes and (ho poor manuals do no rhino to help
programming project you should hove a good
idea of what ihe program is going to look like,
what features h will contain and how they will be
implemented. The be-tt place to stori is to design
o rough of the interface, You can then mink of
the different functions you will need and add
them to Ihe design. Once you have noted oil the
different functions you can then work out how
they will operate.
Understanding
Fortunately, you can sofely skip the above for
this project as I have already done ihis work,
and the code explanations should help you
understand how Each section of ihe program
works. This ii probably a good point in which to
give you a rough description of whai BOOTil
does.
The finished BOOTH program will, funda-
mentally, allow the user lo disable WBStorrup
programs so they are not executed when
Workbench loads Why would you wonl to do
this? Well, two reasons, the first being lhal dis-
abling programs from running saves memory
and a:sa some programs clash when run roge"-
her. By holding dawn the right mouse button
BOOTIT FUNCTIONS
Main Interface - the interface
should be very user-friendly featuring
OadTools buttons etc,
GadTooli - WBStariup Contents
GTlistView, This will display the con-
tents of the WBStariup drawer,
Hone/ All GTCyd* - clicking this lo
None wiSl de-select all the WBStartup
drawer programs and clicking to AH
will select ihem all.
Relcom GTBurton - this button will
rescon the WBSlortup drawer and
update the WBStartup Contenls
GTlislView,
About GTButton - display About
BOOTil information such as author
and special thanks.
Okay GTButton - this will execute
the disabling operation as specified
and quit BOOTit
Cancel GTButton - cancel the
BOOTit program and the disabling
operation.
Disable User-Startup File
GTCheckbox - ihis will toggle
between on an off and will decide
whether the User-Startup file is dis-
abled Of not,
Report GTFeMt - reports to the user
what the program is doing,
when booting Workbench, ihe BOOTit interface
will load and ihe current WBStariup programs
will be reed and presented in a list
[GTListView}, The user will then be able to click
on programs in this list and either disable them
ar enable them - disabled programs will be
marked with a + sign.
Fortunately, Blitz Basic affords you a great
deal of power when building Intuition applica-
tions, so BOOTil will also feature the ability to
disable the User-Startup file.
BOOTit will work by adding .BOOTit lo the
selected program's filename. As Workbench
only executes programs in the WBStorrup draw-
er with .info at the end of their filenames, "hese
programs will be ignored. However, the user
will nol be very pleased when he/she finds that
their WBStariup programs have been renamed
and, therefore, we will need to write another
program called EnabfeBOOTit to rename the
disabled programs back to their original names,
for ihis lo work we will need to make BOOTil
save a file containing o list of the disabled pro-
grams before it quits so that EnablefiOOTit will
be able to rename the programs.
So, as of nexl month I will be providing
source code and explanations for BOOTil. As
flOOTit and EnableBOOTil will feature user
commands you will be expected lo have the
latest user commands.
Blitz
PROBLEMS
If you have any problems with Ihis tuto-
rial or Bliti Bask 2 in general I can be
contacted at the following e-mail
address stevew@idg.ca.tik. I cannot
guarantee that 1 will be able la answer
all queries but I will do my best.
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